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 shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
• 1 Jn 5:2By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
• John 5:24Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
• 1 Jn 4:20–21If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
• 1 Th 4:9But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
• 1 Jn 4:7–8Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
• Heb 13:1Let brotherly love continue.
• 1 Pet 1:22Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
• John 15:12This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
• Eph 1:15Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,
• 1 Jn 3:23And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
• Matt 25:40And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
• 1 Jn 4:12No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
• Col 1:4Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints,
• 1 Pet 3:8Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
• 1 Jn 5:19–20And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
• John 15:17These things I command you, that ye love one another.
• 1 Jn 5:13These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
• 1 Jn 2:9–11He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.
• 2 Pet 1:7And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
• Heb 6:10–11For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
• Ps 16:3But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.
• Eph 2:5Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
• 1 Jn 2:3And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
• 2 Cor 5:1For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
• Prov 21:16The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
• Luke 15:32It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.
• Gal 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
• Luke 15:24For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
• Eph 2:1And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;

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