Popular Bible Verses from 1 John 3

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Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.

This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.

See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work.

No-one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God.

If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person?

The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: we know it by the Spirit he gave us.

This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister.

For this is the message you heard from the beginning: we should love one another.

Do not be surprised, my brothers and sisters, if the world hates you.