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1 John 3:16
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KJ21
Hereby we perceive the love of God: because He laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
ASV
Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
AMP
By this we know [and have come to understand the depth and essence of His precious] love: that He [willingly] laid down His life for us [because He loved us]. And we ought to lay down our lives for the believers.
AMPC
By this we come to know (progressively to recognize, to perceive, to understand) the [essential] love: that He laid down His [own] life for us; and we ought to lay [our] lives down for [those who are our] brothers [in Him].
BRG
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.
CSB
This is how we have come to know love: He laid down his life for us. We should also lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.
CSBA
This is how we have come to know love: He laid down his life for us. We should also lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.
CEB
This is how we know love: Jesus laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.
CJB
The way that we have come to know love is through his having laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers!
CEV
We know what love is because Jesus gave his life for us. This is why we must give our lives for each other.
DARBY
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.
DLNT
By this we have come-to-know love: because that One laid-down His life for us. And we ought to lay-down our lives for the brothers.
DRA
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.
ERV
This is how we know what real love is: Jesus gave his life for us. So we should give our lives for each other as brothers and sisters.
EASY
This is how we know what true love is: Jesus Christ gave his own life on the cross. He died on our behalf. So we too ought to give our lives for other believers.
EHV
This is how we have come to know love: Jesus laid down his life for us. And we also should lay down our lives for our brothers.
ESV
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
ESVUK
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
EXB
This is how we know what real love is: ·Jesus [L he] ·gave [laid down] his life for us [John 15:13]. So we should ·give [lay down] our lives for our brothers and sisters [C fellow believers; John 15:12].
GNV
Hereby have we perceived love, that he laid down his life for us: therefore we ought also to lay down our lives for the brethren.
GW
We understand what love is when we realize that Christ gave his life for us. That means we must give our lives for other believers.
GNT
This is how we know what love is: Christ gave his life for us. We too, then, ought to give our lives for others!
HCSB
This is how we have come to know love: He laid down His life for us. We should also lay down our lives for our brothers.
ICB
This is how we know what real love is: Jesus gave his life for us. So we should give our lives for our brothers.
ISV
This is how we have come to know love: the Messiah gave his life for us. We, too, ought to give our lives for our brothers.
PHILLIPS
We know and, to some extent realise, the love of God for us because Christ expressed it in laying down his life for us. We must in turn express our love by laying down our lives for those who are our brothers. But as for the well-to-do man who sees his brothers in want but shuts his eyes—and his heart—how could anyone believe that the love of God lives in him? My children, let us not love merely in theory or in words—let us love in sincerity and in practice!
JUB
In this we have known the charity of God because he laid down his life for us; we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
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.
AKJV
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.
LSB
By this we have known love, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
LEB
We have come to know love by this: that he laid down his life on behalf of us, and we ought to lay down our lives on behalf of the brothers.
TLB
We know what real love is from Christ’s example in dying for us. And so we also ought to lay down our lives for our Christian brothers.
MSG
This is how we’ve come to understand and experience love: Christ sacrificed his life for us. This is why we ought to live sacrificially for our fellow believers, and not just be out for ourselves. If you see some brother or sister in need and have the means to do something about it but turn a cold shoulder and do nothing, what happens to God’s love? It disappears. And you made it disappear.
MEV
By this we know the love of God: that He laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
MOUNCE
By this we have come to know · love: that he laid down his life on our behalf. · And we are obligated to lay down our lives for the brothers.
NOG
We understand what love is when we realize that Christ gave his life for us. That means we must give our lives for other believers.
NABRE
The way we came to know love was that he laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
NASB
We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers and sisters.
NASB1995
We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
NCB
This is how we know what love is: he laid down his life for us, and we in turn must be prepared to lay down our lives for our brethren.
NCV
This is how we know what real love is: Jesus gave his life for us. So we should give our lives for our brothers and sisters.
NET
We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.
NIRV
We know what love is because Jesus Christ gave his life for us. So we should give our lives for our brothers and sisters.
NIV
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.
NIVUK
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.
NKJV
By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
NLV
We know what love is because Christ gave His life for us. We should give our lives for our brothers.
NLT
We know what real love is because Jesus gave up his life for us. So we also ought to give up our lives for our brothers and sisters.
NMB
By this we perceive love: that he gave his life for us. And, therefore, we also ought to give our lives for the brethren.
NRSVA
We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us—and we ought to lay down our lives for one another.
NRSVACE
We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us—and we ought to lay down our lives for one another.
NRSVCE
We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us—and we ought to lay down our lives for one another.
NRSVUE
We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us—and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers and sisters.
NTFE
This is how we know love: he laid down his life for us. And we too ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.
OJB
By this we have had da’as of ahavah, because that One on behalf of us laid down his nefesh [YESHAYAH 53:10]; and we ought, on behalf of the Achim b’Moshiach, to lay down our nefashot.
RGT
By this we have perceived love: that He laid down His life for us. Therefore, we also ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
RSV
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
RSVCE
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
TLV
We have come to know love by this—Yeshua laid down His life for us, and we also ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.
VOICE
We know what true love looks like because of Jesus. He gave His life for us, and He calls us to give our lives for our brothers and sisters.
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.
WE
Christ died for us. That is how we know what love is. We also should be willing to die for our brothers.
WYC
In this thing we have known the charity of God, for he put his life for us, and we owe to put our lives for our brethren.
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;
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