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The Command to Love: Evidence of True Faith

1 John 3:11-24

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Chapter 3
11 For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. 12 not as Cain who was from the Evil One and he sacrificially slaughtered his brother. And for the sake of what did he sacrificially slaughter him? Because his works were evil, but his brother's were righteous. 13 Do not marvel, brothers, if the world hates you. 14 We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love the brothers. The one who does not love remains in death. 15 Everyone who hates his brother is a manslayer, and you know that every manslayer does not have eternal life abiding in him. 16 In this we have come to know love, because that one laid down his soul for us. And we ought to lay down our souls for the brothers. 17 But whoever has the world's goods and sees his brother in need and shuts his compassion from him—how does the love of God abide in him? 18 Little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and truth. 19 In this we will know that we are out of the truth, and before him we will persuade our heart. 20 because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart and knows all things. 21 Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have openness toward God. 22 and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight. 23 And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he commanded us. 24 And the one who keeps his commandments abides in him, and he in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, from the Spirit that he gave us.