Love One Another

1 John 3:16

In 9 translations

BSB: By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
KJV: Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
WEB: By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
ASV: Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
LSV: in this we have known love, because He laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down [our] lives for the brothers;
YLT: in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down;
DBY: Hereby we have known love, because he has laid down his life for us; and we ought for the brethren to lay down [our] lives.
DRC: In this we have known the charity of God, because he hath laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
GNV: Hereby haue we perceiued loue, that he layde downe his life for vs: therefore we ought also to lay downe our liues for the brethren.

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NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read θεῖναι.¶ (“to lay down”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read τιθέναι (“to lay down”).

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SBLGNT: θεῖναι. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read θεῖναι; Robinson–Pierpont read τιθέναι.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT: ἐν τούτῳ ἐγνώκαμεν τὴν ἀγάπην, ὅτι ἐκεῖνος ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ ἔθηκεν· καὶ ἡμεῖς ὀφείλομεν ὑπὲρ τῶν ἀδελφῶν τὰς ψυχὰς θεῖναι.
RP2018: Ἐν τούτῳ ἐγνώκαμεν τὴν ἀγάπην, ὅτι ἐκεῖνος ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ ἔθηκεν· καὶ ἡμεῖς ὀφείλομεν ὑπὲρ τῶν ἀδελφῶν τὰς ψυχὰς τιθέναι.
TR-Boyd: Ἐν τούτῳ ἐγνώκαμεν τὴν ἀγάπην, ὅτι ἐκεῖνος ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ ἔθηκε· καὶ ἡμεῖς ὀφείλομεν ὑπὲρ τῶν ἀδελφῶν τὰς ψυχὰς τιθέναι.ἀγάπην ¦ ἀγάπην τοῦ Θεοῦ SCR
SCR1894: εν τουτω εγνωκαμεν την αγαπην του θεου οτι εκεινος υπερ ημων την ψυχην αυτου εθηκεν και ημεις οφειλομεν υπερ των αδελφων τας ψυχας τιθεναι

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In the reference works topics that cite this verse

Hereby Example of Christ, The Ethics Example Ten Commandments, The Love of Christ, The Life, Natural Suffering Commandments Christ, Offices of

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Cross-references most cited first

1 John 4:9–11This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him. And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as…
Ephesians 5:2and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.
John 13:34A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another.
John 3:16For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Romans 5:8But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
John 15:12–13This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
Revelation 1:5and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by His blood,
1 Peter 3:18For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,
Acts 20:28Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.
Matthew 20:28just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”
Titus 2:13as we await the blessed hope and glorious appearance of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 5:25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her
1 John 2:6Whoever claims to abide in Him must walk as Jesus walked.
Romans 16:4who have risked their lives for me. Not only I but all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them.
Revelation 5:9And they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.
John 10:15just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep.

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