1 John 3:11

Contextual Overview

¹¹For this is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another, ¹¹ For this is the message that yee heard from the beginning, that wee should loue one another. ¹¹ For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. ¹¹ For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. ¹¹ For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we are to love one another;¹¹ This is the teaching you have heard from the beginning: We must love each other. ¹¹ For this is the original message we heard: We should love each other. ¹¹ For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;¹¹This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another.¹¹ From the beginning you were told that we must love each other.

Bible Verse Review
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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
The LORD said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.

Genesis 4:10
And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.

Genesis 4:10
And he said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground.

Genesis 4:10
Then the Lord said, "What have you done? Your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground.

Genesis 4:10
But the Lord said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground!

Genesis 4:10
The LORD said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's [innocent] blood is crying out to Me from the ground [for justice].

Genesis 4:10
Then He said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying out to Me from the ground.

Genesis 4:10
Againe he said, What hast thou done? the voyce of thy brothers blood cryeth vnto me from the earth.

Genesis 4:10
And He said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying out to Me from the ground.

Genesis 4:10
Then the Lord said: Why have you done this terrible thing? You killed your own brother, and his blood flowed onto the ground. Now his blood is calling out for me to punish you.

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.