International Standard Version 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.
American Standard Version Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
Young's Literal Translation 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;
