1 John 3:11
New International Version
For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another.

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

English Standard Version
For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

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

Berean Literal Bible
For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another,

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

New King James Version
For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another,

New American Standard Bible
For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we are to love one another;

NASB 1995
For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

NASB 1977
For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

Legacy Standard Bible
For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

Amplified Bible
For this is the message which you [believers] have heard from the beginning [of your relationship with Christ], that we should [unselfishly] love and seek the best for one another;

Christian Standard Bible
For this is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For this is the message you have heard from the beginning: 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:

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For this is the commandment that you have heard from the first: “You shall love one another”,

Contemporary English Version
From the beginning you were told we must love each other.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For this is the declaration, which you have heard from the beginning, that you should love one another.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The message that you have heard from the beginning is to love each other.

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

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

Literal Standard Version
because this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we may love one another,

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

New American Bible
For this is the message you have heard from the beginning: we should love one another,

NET Bible
For this is the gospel message that you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another,

New Revised Standard Version
For this is the message you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

New Heart English Bible
For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

Webster's Bible Translation
For this is the message that ye have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

Weymouth New Testament
For this is the Message you have heard from the beginning--that we are to love one another.

World English Bible
For this is the message which you 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,

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Audio Bible



Context
Love One Another
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. 11 This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another. 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.…

Cross References
John 13:4
So He got up from the supper, laid aside His outer garments, and wrapped a towel around His waist.

John 13:34
A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another.

John 15:12
This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

1 John 1:5
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
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 4:7
Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

1 John 4:11
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.


Treasury of Scripture

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

this.

1 John 1:5
This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

1 John 2:7,8
Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning…

message.

1 Timothy 1:5
Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:

that we.

1 John 4:7,21
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God…

John 13:34,35
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another…

John 15:12
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

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1 John 3
1. He declares the singular love of God toward us, in making us his sons;
3. who therefore ought obediently to keep his commandments;
11. as also to love one another as brothers.














Verse 11. - Because the message (ἀγγελία: see on 1 John 1:5) which ye heard from the beginning is this. Not merely in the beginning, but from the beginning; it was among the first announcements, and it had never ceased to be in force. Jerome, in his 'Commentary on Galatians' (Galatians 6:10), tells us that when St. John became too infirm to preach, he used often to say no more than this, "Little children, love one another." His hearers at last wearied of it, and said, "Master, why dost thou always say this?" "It is the Lord's command," he replied; "and if this alone is done, it is enough."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
This
αὕτη (hautē)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3778: This; he, she, it.

is
ἐστὶν (estin)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

the
(hē)
Article - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

message
ἀγγελία (angelia)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 31: A message. From aggelos; an announcement, i.e. precept.

you have heard
ἠκούσατε (ēkousate)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 191: To hear, listen, comprehend by hearing; pass: is heard, reported. A primary verb; to hear.

from
ἀπ’ (ap’)
Preposition
Strong's 575: From, away from. A primary particle; 'off, ' i.e. Away, in various senses.

[the] beginning:
ἀρχῆς (archēs)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 746: From archomai; a commencement, or chief.

We should love
ἀγαπῶμεν (agapōmen)
Verb - Present Subjunctive Active - 1st Person Plural
Strong's 25: To love, wish well to, take pleasure in, long for; denotes the love of reason, esteem. Perhaps from agan; to love.

one another.
ἀλλήλους (allēlous)
Personal / Reciprocal Pronoun - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 240: One another, each other. Genitive plural from allos reduplicated; one another.


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