16Hereby we have known love, because he has laid down his life for us; and we ought for the brethren to lay down our lives.


In Context

13 Do not wonder, brethren, if the world hate you.

14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother abides in death.

15 Every one that hates his brother is a murderer, and ye know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

16 Hereby we have known love, because he has laid down his life for us; and we ought for the brethren to lay down our lives.

17 But whoso may have the world's substance, and see his brother having need, and shut up his bowels from him, how abides the love of God in him?

18 Children, let us not love with word, nor with tongue, but in deed and in truth.

1 John 3:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:16Hereby perceive we the love [of God,] because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down [our] lives for the brethren.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:16This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:16In this we have known the charity of God, because he hath laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:16Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:16Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:16By this we perceive the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:16By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:16in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:16Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.