Populaire Bijbelverzen uit 1 John 3

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My children, our love should not be just words and talk; it must be true love, which shows itself in action.

This is how we know what love is: Christ gave his life for us. We too, then, ought to give our lives for others!

See how much the Father has loved us! His love is so great that we are called God's children—and so, in fact, we are. This is why the world does not know us: it has not known God.

Whoever continues to sin belongs to the Devil, because the Devil has sinned from the very beginning. The Son of God appeared for this very reason, to destroy what the Devil had done.

Those who are children of God do not continue to sin, for God's very nature is in them; and because God is their Father, they cannot continue to sin.

If we are rich and see others in need, yet close our hearts against them, how can we claim that we love God?

Those who obey God's commands live in union with God and God lives in union with them. And because of the Spirit that God has given us we know that God lives in union with us.

Here is the clear difference between God's children and the Devil's children: those who do not do what is right or do not love others are not God's children.

The message you heard from the very beginning is this: we must love one another.

So do not be surprised, my friends, if the people of the world hate you.