1 John 3:11 “This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love…”

1 John 3:11

This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

World English Bible

For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another—

American Standard Version

For this is the message which ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another:

Geneva Bible 1599

For this is the message, that ye heard from the beginning, that we should loue one another,

Darby Translation

For this is the message which ye have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another:

Young's Literal Translation

because this is the message that ye did hear from the beginning, that we may love one another,

Bible in Basic English

Because this is the word which was given to you from the first, that we are to have love for one another;

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Cross references

“this”

1 John 1:5 1 John 2:7 1 John 2:8

1 John 1:5 · BSB

And this is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you: God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.

1 John 2:7 · BSB

Beloved, I am not writing to you a new commandment, but an old one, which you have had from the beginning. This commandment is the message you have heard.

1 John 2:8 · BSB

Then again, I am also writing to you a new commandment, which is true in Him and also in you. For the darkness is fading and the true light is already shining.

“message”

1 Timothy 1:5

1 Timothy 1:5 · BSB

The goal of our instruction is the love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith.

“that we”

John 15:12 2 John 1:5 1 John 4:7 1 John 4:21 1 Peter 3:8 Ephesians 5:2

John 15:12 · BSB

This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

2 John 1:5 · BSB

And now I urge you, dear lady—not as a new commandment to you, but one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another.

1 John 4:7 · BSB

Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

1 John 4:21 · BSB

And we have this commandment from Him: Whoever loves God must love his brother as well.

1 Peter 3:8 · BSB

Finally, all of you, be like-minded and sympathetic, love as brothers, be tenderhearted and humble.

Ephesians 5:2 · BSB

and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

10By this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil: Anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is anyone who does not love his brother.

12Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did Cain slay him? Because his own deeds were evil, while those of his brother were righteous.

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