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 love 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 5:24Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.
• 1 Jn 4:20–21If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.
• 1 Th 4:9Now about brotherly love, you do not need anyone to write to you, because you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.
• 1 Jn 4:7–8Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
• Heb 13:1Continue in brotherly love.
• 1 Pet 1:22Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.
• John 15:12This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
• Eph 1:15For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,
• 1 Jn 3:23And this is His commandment: that we should believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and we should love one another just as He commanded us.
• Matt 25:40And the King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did for Me.’
• 1 Jn 4:12No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.
• Col 1:4because we have heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and your love for all the saints—
• 1 Pet 3:8Finally, all of you, be like-minded and sympathetic, love as brothers, be tenderhearted and humble.
• 1 Jn 5:19–20We know that we are of God, and that the whole world is under the power of the evil one.
• John 15:17This is My command to you: Love one another.
• 1 Jn 5:13I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.
• 1 Jn 2:9–11If anyone claims to be in the light but hates his brother, he is still in the darkness.
• 2 Pet 1:7and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.
• Heb 6:10–11For God is not unjust. He will not forget your work and the love you have shown for His name as you have ministered to the saints and continue to do so.
• Ps 16:3As for the saints in the land, they are the excellence in whom all my delight resides.
• Eph 2:5made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!
• 1 Jn 2:3By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments.
• 2 Cor 5:1Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
• Prov 21:16The man who strays from the path of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.
• Luke 15:32But it was fitting to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours 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, faithfulness,
• Luke 15:24For this son of mine was dead and is alive again! He was lost and is found!’ So they began to celebrate.
• Eph 2:1And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,

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