Love in Deed and Truth

Children of God Love in Deed · 1 John 3

Story guide: The message from the beginning is to love one another. Jesus laid down his life, so love opens the heart and acts for a brother in need.

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11For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another.

12not like Cain, who was from the evil one and slaughtered his brother. And why did he slaughter him? Because his deeds were evil, but those of his brother were righteous.

13Do not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you.

14We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love the brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.

15Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that every murderer does not have eternal life remaining in him.

16By this we have come to know love: that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

17But whoever has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him—how does the love of God remain in him?

18Little children, let us not love in word or with the tongue, but in deed and truth.

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