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

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John 13:4
He rises from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself.

John 13:34
A new commandment I give to you, That you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

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

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

1 John 2:7
Brothers, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you have heard from the beginning.

1 John 4:7
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loves is born of God, and knows God.

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

1 John 4:21
And this commandment have we from him, That he who loves God love his brother also.

2 John 1:5
And now I beseech you, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment to you, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

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Matthew Henry's Commentary

3:11-15 We should love the Lord Jesus, value his love, and therefore love all our brethren in Christ. This love is the special fruit of our faith, and a certain sign of our being born again. But none who rightly know the heart of man, can wonder at the contempt and enmity of ungodly people against the children of God. We know that we are passed from death to life: we may know it by the evidences of our faith in Christ, of which love to our brethren is one. It is not zeal for a party in the common religion, or affection for those who are of the same name and sentiments with ourselves. The life of grace in the heart of a regenerate person, is the beginning and first principle of a life of glory, whereof they must be destitute who hate their brother in their hearts.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

11. the message—"announcement," as of something good; not a mere command, as the law. The Gospel message of Him who loved us, announced by His servants, is, that we love the brethren; not here all mankind, but those who are our brethren in Christ, children of the same family of God, of whom we have been born anew.