1 John 3:11
Modern Translations
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 Study Bible
This is the message you have heard from the beginning: 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;

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,

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

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

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

International Standard Version
This is the message that 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,
Classic Translations
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,

King James 2000 Bible
For this is the message that you 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;

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

American King James Version
For this is the message that 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:

A Faithful Version
For this is the message that you heard from the beginning--that we should love one another;

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

English Revised Version
For this is the message which ye 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.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
For this is the message, that ye heard from the beginning, that we should loue one another,

Bishops' Bible of 1568
For this is the tidynges that ye heard from the begynnyng, that ye shoulde loue one another.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
For this is the tydinges which ye haue herde from the begynnynge, that ye shulde loue one another,

Tyndale Bible of 1526
For this is the tydinges that ye hearde fro the begynninge that we shuld love one another:
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
because this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we may love one another,

Berean Literal Bible
For this is the message that you 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,

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

Literal Emphasis Translation
Because this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, so that we should love one another;

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

Catholic Public Domain Version
For this is the announcement that you heard from the beginning: that you should love one another.

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

Lamsa Bible
For this is the commandment that you have heard from the beginning, that you must love one another,

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

Godbey New Testament
Because this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we must love one another,

Haweis New Testament
For this is the commandment which ye have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

Mace New Testament
for this is the doctrine that you 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.

Worrell New Testament
because this is the message which ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

Worsley New Testament
for this is the injunction which ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another: not as Cain who was of the evil one, and slew his brother;
















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