For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;
Parallel translations
- KJV For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
- BSB This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
- NKJV For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another,
- NASB For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we are to love one another;
- NLT This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
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- John 15:12“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
- 2 Jn 1:5Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
- 1 Jn 4:7Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.
- John 13:34–35A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.
- 1 Pet 3:8Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous,
- 1 Jn 4:21This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.
- Eph 5:2Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
- 1 Pet 4:8And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
- 1 Th 4:9But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,
- 1 Jn 1:5This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
- Gal 6:2Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
- 1 Jn 2:7–8Brothers, 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 heard from the beginning.
- 1 Pet 1:22Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:
- 1 Tim 1:5but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith;
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