New American Standard Bible 2020

1 John 3:11-24

11 1For this is the message 2which you have heard from the beginning, 3that we are to love one another; 12not as 4Cain, who was of 5the evil one and murdered his brother. And for what reason did he murder him? Because 6his own deeds were evil, but his brother’s were righteous.

13Do not be surprised, brothers and sisters, if 7the world hates you. 14We know that we have 8passed out of death into life, 9because we love the brothers and sisters. The one who does not love remains in death. 15Everyone who 10hates his brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that 11no murderer has eternal life remaining in him. 16We know love by this, that 12He laid down His life for us; and 13we ought to lay down our lives for the 14brothers and sisters. 17But 15whoever has worldly goods and sees his brother or sister in need, and 16closes his 17heart 18against him, 19how does the love of God remain in him? 18 20Little children, let’s not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and 21truth. 19We will know by this that we are 22of the truth, and will set our heart at ease before Him, 20that if our heart condemns us, that God is greater than our heart, and He knows all things. 21 23Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have 24confidence 25before God; 22and 26whatever we ask, we receive from Him, because we 27keep His commandments and do 28the things that are pleasing in His sight.

23This is His commandment, that we 29 30believe in 31the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as 32He 33commanded us. 24The one who 34keeps His commandments 35remains in Him, and He in him. 36We know by this that 37He remains in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.

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Notes

1. 1 John 3:11 1 John 1:5 ↩
2. 1 John 3:11 1 John 2:7 ↩
3. 1 John 3:11 John 13:4f; 15:12; 1 John 4:7, 11f, 21; 2 John 5 ↩
4. 1 John 3:12 Gen 4:8 ↩
5. 1 John 3:12 Matt 5:37; 1 John 2:13f ↩
6. 1 John 3:12 Ps 38:20; Prov 29:10; John 8:40, 41 ↩
7. 1 John 3:13 John 15:18; 17:14 ↩
8. 1 John 3:14 John 5:24 ↩
9. 1 John 3:14 John 13:35; 1 John 2:10 ↩
10. 1 John 3:15 Matt 5:21f; John 8:44 ↩
11. 1 John 3:15 Gal 5:20f; Rev 21:8 ↩
12. 1 John 3:16 John 10:11; 15:13 ↩
13. 1 John 3:16 Phil 2:17; 1 Thess 2:8 ↩
14. 1 John 3:16 1 John 2:9 ↩
15. 1 John 3:17 James 2:15f ↩
16. 1 John 3:17 Deut 15:7 ↩
17. 1 John 3:17 Lit inward parts ↩
18. 1 John 3:17 Lit from ↩
19. 1 John 3:17 1 John 4:20 ↩
20. 1 John 3:18 1 John 2:1; 3:7 ↩
21. 1 John 3:18 2 John 1; 3 John 1 ↩
22. 1 John 3:19 1 John 2:21 ↩
23. 1 John 3:21 1 John 3:2 ↩
24. 1 John 3:21 1 John 2:28; 5:14 ↩
25. 1 John 3:21 Lit toward ↩
26. 1 John 3:22 Job 22:26f; Matt 7:7; 21:22; John 9:31 ↩
27. 1 John 3:22 1 John 2:3 ↩
28. 1 John 3:22 John 8:29; Heb 13:21 ↩
29. 1 John 3:23 Or believe the name ↩
30. 1 John 3:23 John 6:29 ↩
31. 1 John 3:23 John 1:12; 2:23; 3:18 ↩
32. 1 John 3:23 John 13:34; 15:12; 1 John 2:8 ↩
33. 1 John 3:23 Lit gave us a commandment ↩
34. 1 John 3:24 1 John 2:3 ↩
35. 1 John 3:24 John 6:56; 10:38; 1 John 2:6, 24; 4:15 ↩
36. 1 John 3:24 John 14:17; Rom 8:9, 14, 16; 1 Thess 4:8; 1 John 4:13 ↩
37. 1 John 3:24 1 John 2:5 ↩

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