1 John 3:14

Love for fellow believers is evidence that we have passed from death to life; lack of love means remaining in death. Love assures us of new life.

Cross-references · 30

• John 13:35By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
• 1 Jn 5:2By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.
• John 5:24“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
• 1 Jn 4:20–21If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
• 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 4:7–8Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.
• Heb 13:1Let brotherly love continue.
• 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:
• John 15:12“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
• Eph 1:15For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which you have toward all the saints,
• 1 Jn 3:23This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.
• Matt 25:40“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’
• 1 Jn 4:12No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.
• Col 1:4having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have toward all the saints,
• 1 Pet 3:8Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous,
• 1 Jn 5:19–20We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
• John 15:17“I command these things to you, that you may love one another.
• 1 Jn 5:13These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.
• 1 Jn 2:9–11He who says he is in the light and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now.
• 2 Pet 1:7and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.
• Heb 6:10–11For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.
• Ps 16:3As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.
• Eph 2:5even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
• 1 Jn 2:3This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.
• 2 Cor 5:1For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
• Prov 21:16The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the departed spirits.
• Luke 15:32But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’”
• Gal 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
• Luke 15:24for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ They began to celebrate.
• Eph 2:1You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

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