18Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.


In Context

15 Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life in him.

16 This 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.

17 If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?

18 Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.

19 This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence

20 whenever our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.

1st John 3:18 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:18My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:18My little children, let us not love in word, nor in tongue, but in deed, and in truth.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:18My Little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:18Children, let us not love with word, nor with tongue, but in deed and in truth.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:18My little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:18My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:18My little children, let's not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:18My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:18My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.