1 John 3:11

For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

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WEBBE

For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another—

BSB

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

ASV

For this is the message which ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another:

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ὅτι hoti For G3754 αὕτη hautē this G3778 ἐστὶν estin is G1510 ἡ hē the G3588 ἀγγελία angelia message G31 ἣν hēn that G3739 ἠκούσατε ēkousate you have heard G191 ἀπ ap᾽ from G575 ἀρχῆς archēs [the] beginning G746 ἵνα ina that G2443 ἀγαπῶμεν agapōmen we may love G25 ἀλλήλους allēlous one another G240

The early church

"For this is the message which we heard from the beginning, that we should love one another." He has made it manifest to us that it is of this he speaks; whoso acts against this commandment, is in that accursed sin, into which those fall who are not born of God.
Augustine of Hippo · d. 430Homilies on 1 John

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 11–15

We should love the Lord Jesus, value his love, and therefore love all our brethren in Christ. This love is the special fruit of our faith, and a certain sign of our being born again. But none who rightly know the heart of man, can wonder at the contempt and enmity of ungodly people against the children of God. We know that we are passed from death to life: we may know it by the evidences of our faith in Christ, of which love to our brethren is one. It is not zeal for a party in the common religion, or affection for those who are of the same name and sentiments with ourselves. The life of grace in the heart of a regenerate person, is the beginning and first principle of a life of glory, whereof they must be destitute who hate their brother in their hearts.

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