Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
This is the message that you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
Holman Bible
For this is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another,
A Conservative Version
Because this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love each other.
American Standard Version
For this is the message which ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another:
Amplified
For this is the message which you [believers] have heard from the beginning [of your relationship with Christ], that we should [unselfishly] love and seek the best for one another;
An Understandable Version
[Now] this is the message that you people heard from the beginning [of Christ's ministry], that we should love one another [See Mark 12:31],
Anderson New Testament
For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
Bible in Basic English
Because this is the word which was given to you from the first, that we are to have love for one another;
Common New Testament
For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another,
Daniel Mace New Testament
for this is the doctrine that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
Darby Translation
For this is the message which ye have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another:
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
Godbey New Testament
Because this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we must love one another,
Goodspeed New Testament
For the message you have heard from the beginning is this: We must love one another.
John Wesley New Testament
For this is the message which ye heard from the beginning, that we love one another.
Julia Smith Translation
For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
King James 2000
For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another,
Modern King James verseion
For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For this is the tidings, that ye heard at the beginning, that we should love one another:
Moffatt New Testament
For this is the message you have learned from the very beginning, that we are to love one another:
Montgomery New Testament
For this is the message that you have listened to from the beginning, "WE ARE TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER."
NET Bible
For this is the gospel message that you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another,
New Heart English Bible
For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;
Noyes New Testament
For this is the message that ye have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;
Sawyer New Testament
For this is the message which you heard from the beginning; that we should love one another;
The Emphasized Bible
Because, this, is the message which ye have heard from the beginning - that we should be loving one another, -
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For this is the commandment which ye have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
Twentieth Century New Testament
For these are the Tidings that we heard from the first--that we are to love one another.
Webster
For this is the message that ye have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
Weymouth New Testament
For this is the Message you have heard from the beginning--that we are to love one another.
Williams New Testament
it is so because the message that you have heard from the beginning is this: We should love one another.
World English Bible
For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;
Worrell New Testament
because this is the message which ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;
Worsley New Testament
for this is the injunction which ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another: not as Cain who was of the evil one, and slew his brother;
Youngs Literal Translation
because this is the message that ye did hear from the beginning, that we may love one another,
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References
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Word Count of 38 Translations in 1 John 3:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
God Is Love, So Love One Another
10 This is how God's children and the Devil's children are distinguished. No person who fails to practice righteousness and to love his brother is from God. 11 This is the message that you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another. 12 Do not be like Cain, who was from the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because what he was doing was evil and his brother's actions were righteous.
Cross References
1 John 1:5
This is the message that we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light, and in him there is no darkness none at all!
2 John 1:5
Dear lady, I am now requesting of you that we all continue to love one another. It is not as though I am writing to give you a new commandment, but one that we have had from the beginning.
John 13:34-35
I'm giving you a new commandment"to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.
John 15:12
"This is my commandment: that you love one another as I have loved you.
1 John 4:7
Dear friends, let us continuously love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born from God and knows God.
1 John 4:21
And this is the commandment that we have from him: the person who loves God must also love his brother.
Galatians 6:2
Practice carrying each other's burdens. In this way you will fulfill the law of the Messiah.
Ephesians 5:2
Live lovingly, just as the Messiah also loved us and gave himself for us as an offering and sacrifice, a fragrant aroma to God.
1 Thessalonians 4:9
Now you do not need anyone to write to you about brotherly love, since you have been taught by God to love each other.
1 Timothy 1:5
The goal of this instruction is love that flows from a pure heart, from a clear conscience, and from a sincere faith.
1 Peter 1:22
Now that you have obeyed the truth and have purified your souls to love your brothers sincerely, you must love one another intensely and with a pure heart.
1 Peter 3:8
Finally, all of you must live in harmony, be sympathetic, love as brothers, and be compassionate and humble.
1 Peter 4:8
Above all, continue to love each other deeply, because love covers a multitude of sins.
1 John 2:7-8
Dear friends, I am not writing to you a new commandment, but an old commandment that you have had from the beginning. This old commandment is the word you have heard.