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Sunday, November 24th, 2024
the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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New Living Translation

1 John 3:11

This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Commandments;   Love;   Righteousness;   Wicked (People);   The Topic Concordance - Hate;   Love;   World;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Doctrine;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Union to Christ;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Old Testament;   Satan;   Holman Bible Dictionary - John, the Letters of;   Suffering;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - John, Epistles of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - John Epistles of;   Love;   Sanctify, Sanctification;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Beginning;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Vagabond;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - John the Baptist;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Brotherly Kindness;   John, the Epistles of;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
This is the teaching you have heard from the beginning: We must love each other.
Revised Standard Version
For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another,
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For this is the tydinges that ye hearde fro the begynninge that we shuld love one another:
Hebrew Names Version
For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;
New American Standard Bible
For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we are to love one another;
New Century Version
This is the teaching you have heard from the beginning: We must love each other.
Update Bible Version
For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another:
Webster's Bible Translation
For this is the message that ye have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
World English Bible
For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For this is the message which ye heard from the beginning, that we love one another.
Weymouth's New Testament
For this is the Message you have heard from the beginning--that we are to love one another.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For this is the tellyng, that ye herden at the bigynnyng, that ye loue ech othere;
English Revised Version
For this is the message which ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another:
Berean Standard Bible
This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
Contemporary English Version
From the beginning you were told that we must love each other.
Amplified Bible
For this is the message which you [believers] have heard from the beginning [of your relationship with Christ], that we should [unselfishly] love and seek the best for one another;
American Standard Version
For this is the message which ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another:
Bible in Basic English
Because this is the word which was given to you from the first, that we are to have love for one another;
Complete Jewish Bible
For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning: that we should love each other
Darby Translation
For this is the message which ye have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another:
International Standard Version
This is the message that you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another.John 13:34; 15:12; 1 John 1:5; 2:7,23; 4:7,21; 2 John 1:1:5;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
For this is the commandment which you have heard from before, that you love one another.
Murdock Translation
because this is the commandment, which ye heard from the beginning, that ye should love one another.
King James Version (1611)
For this is the message that yee heard from the beginning, that wee should loue one another.
New Life Bible
This is what you have heard from the beginning, that we should love each other.
New Revised Standard
For this is the message you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
English Standard Version
For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For this is the message, that ye heard from the beginning, that we should loue one another,
George Lamsa Translation
For this is the commandment that you have heard from the beginning, that you must love one another,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Because, this, is the message which ye have heard from the beginning - that we should be loving one another, -
Douay-Rheims Bible
For this is the declaration which you have heard from the beginning, that you should love one another.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For this is the tidynges that ye heard from the begynnyng, that ye shoulde loue one another.
Good News Translation
The message you heard from the very beginning is this: we must love one another.
Christian Standard Bible®
For this is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another,
King James Version
For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
Lexham English Bible
For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another,
Literal Translation
Because this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another,
Young's Literal Translation
because this is the message that ye did hear from the beginning, that we may love one another,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For this is the tydinges which ye haue herde from the begynnynge, that ye shulde loue one another,
Mace New Testament (1729)
for this is the doctrine that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
THE MESSAGE
For this is the original message we heard: We should love each other.
New English Translation
For this is the gospel message that you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another,
New King James Version
For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another,
Simplified Cowboy Version
The message that has been stuck on repeat is this—love each other.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

Contextual Overview

11 This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another. 12 We must not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because Cain had been doing what was evil, and his brother had been doing what was righteous. 13 So don't be surprised, dear brothers and sisters, if the world hates you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

this: 1 John 1:5, 1 John 2:7, 1 John 2:8

message: or, commandment, 1 Timothy 1:5,*Gr.

that we: 1 John 4:7, 1 John 4:21, John 13:34, John 13:35, John 15:12, Galatians 6:2, Ephesians 5:2, 1 Thessalonians 4:9, 1 Peter 1:22, 1 Peter 3:8, 1 Peter 4:8, 2 John 1:5

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 11:4 - against Isaiah 59:15 - he that Matthew 23:35 - the blood of righteous Acts 7:26 - ye are 1 Corinthians 6:6 - brother 1 Thessalonians 3:12 - love Hebrews 11:4 - faith 1 John 3:23 - love

Cross-References

Genesis 4:10
But the Lord said, "What have you done? Listen! Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground!
Psalms 50:21
While you did all this, I remained silent, and you thought I didn't care. But now I will rebuke you, listing all my charges against you.
Romans 3:20
For no one can ever be made right with God by doing what the law commands. The law simply shows us how sinful we are.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For this is the message,.... Sent from God by Christ, or what he in his ministry declared, and is the commandment which was so frequently urged by him, John 13:34;

that ye have heard from the beginning; of the preaching of the Gospel to them, and of their conversion; see 1 John 2:7;

that we should love one another; to which the command of Christ, the reason with which it is enforced, and the early notice of it, should engage.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For this is the message - Margin, “commandment.” In the received text, this is ἀγγελία angelia - “a message brought;” in several manuscripts, and in later editions, it is ἐπαγγελία epangelia - “annunciation, announcement;” an order given, or a commandment, Acts 23:21. It is not very material which reading is followed. The word “command” or “rule” would express the sense with sufficient clearness. The reference is to the law given by the Saviour as a permanent direction to his disciples.

That ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another - See the John 13:34-35 notes; 1 John 2:7 note.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 11. For this is the message — See 1 John 1:5. From the beginning God hath taught men that they should love one another. How essentially necessary this is to the comfort and well-being of man in this state of trial and difficulty, every sensible man must see. All are dependent upon all; all upon each, and each upon all. Mutual love makes this dependence pleasant and doubly profitable. Nothing can be more pleasing to an ingenuous and generous mind than to communicate acts of kindness.


 
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