Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love one another. The person who does not love remains spiritually dead.

New American Standard Bible

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love abides in death.

King James Version

We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

Holman Bible

We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.

A Conservative Version

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who is not loving the brother abides in death.

American Standard Version

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not abideth in death.

Amplified

We know that we have passed out of death into Life, because we love the brothers and sisters. He who does not love remains in [spiritual] death.

An Understandable Version

[For] we [can] know that we have passed out of [the realm of spiritual] death and into [spiritual] life, because we [show] love for the brothers [and sisters]. The person who does not love [them] continues to be [spiritually] dead.

Anderson New Testament

We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren: he that loves not his brother, abides in death.

Bible in Basic English

We are conscious that we have come out of death into life because of our love for the brothers. He who has no love is still in death.

Common New Testament

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

Daniel Mace New Testament

as for us, we know, that we have passed from a state of death to that of life, because we love our brethren: he that does not love his brother, is in a destructive state.

Darby Translation

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.

Emphatic Diaglott Bible

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

Godbey New Testament

We know that we have passed out of the death into the life, because we love the brethren with divine love; the one loving not with divine love, abides in the death.

Goodspeed New Testament

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love is still in death.

John Wesley New Testament

We know, that we are passed from death to life, because we love the brethren: he that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

Julia Smith Translation

We know that we have passed from death to life, for we love the brethren. He not loving the brother remains in death.

King James 2000

We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loves not his brother abides in death.

Lexham Expanded Bible

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

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

We know that we are translated from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother, abideth in death.

Moffatt New Testament

We know we have crossed from death to life, because we love the brotherhood; he who has no love [for his brother] remains in death.

Montgomery New Testament

We know that we have migrated, out of death into life, because we love our brothers. He who has no love is abiding in death.

NET Bible

We know that we have crossed over from death to life because we love our fellow Christians. The one who does not love remains in death.

New Heart English Bible

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who does not love remains in death.

Noyes New Testament

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren; he that loveth not abideth in death.

Sawyer New Testament

We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brothers; he that loves not, continues in death.

The Emphasized Bible

We, know, that we have passed over out of death into life, because we love the brethren: he that loveth not, abideth in death.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

We know that we are passed out of [a state of] death into life, because we love the brethren: he that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

Twentieth Century New Testament

We know that we have passed out of Death into Life, because we love our Brothers. The man who does not love remains in a state of Death.

Webster

We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother, abideth in death.

Weymouth New Testament

As for us, we know that we have already passed out of death into Life--because we love our brother men. He who is destitute of love continues dead.

Williams New Testament

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love our brothers. Whoever does not continue to love continues still in death.

World English Bible

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn't love his brother remains in death.

Worrell New Testament

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He that loves not abides in death.

Worsley New Testament

since we know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren: he, that loveth not his brother, remaineth in death.

Youngs Literal Translation

we -- we have known that we have passed out of the death to the life, because we love the brethren; he who is not loving the brother doth remain in the death.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
We
ἡμεῖς 
hemeis 
we, us, we ourselves
Usage: 120

εἴδω 
Eido 
Usage: 519

ὅτι 
Hoti 
Usage: 764

μεταβαίνω 
metabaino 
Usage: 8

ἐκ ἐξ 
Ek 
of, from, out of, by, on, with,
Usage: 709

θάνατος 
Thanatos 
Usage: 100

εἰς 
Eis 
into, to, unto, for, in, on, toward, against,
Usage: 1267

ζωή 
Zoe 
Usage: 88

ὅτι 
Hoti 
Usage: 764

we love
G25
ἀγαπάω 
Agapao 
Usage: 92

the brethren
G80
ἀδελφός 
Adelphos 
Usage: 302

G25
ἀγαπάω 
Agapao 
Usage: 92

not
μή 
me 
not, no, that not, God forbid 9, lest, neither, no man , but, none, not translated,
Usage: 493

G80
ἀδελφός 
Adelphos 
Usage: 302

μένω 
meno 
Usage: 85

in
ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128

Devotionals

Devotionals about 1 John 3:14

Images 1 John 3:14

Prayers for 1 John 3:14

Context Readings

God Is Love, So Love One Another

13 So do not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you. 14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love one another. The person who does not love remains spiritually dead. 15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life present in him.


Cross References

John 5:24

"Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, whoever hears what I say and believes in the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged, but has passed from death to life.

John 13:35

This is how everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."

1 John 5:2

This is how we know that we love God's children: we love God and keep his commandments.

Matthew 25:40

The king will answer them, "I tell all of you with certainty, since you did it for one of the least important of these brothers of mine, you did it for me.'

John 15:12

"This is my commandment: that you love one another as I have loved you.

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.

Proverbs 21:16

Whoever wanders from the path of understanding will end up where the dead are gathered.

Luke 15:24

Because my son was dead and has come back to life. He was lost and has been found.' And they began to celebrate.

Luke 15:32

But we had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and has come back to life. He was lost and has been found.'"

John 15:17

I am giving you these commandments so that you may love one another."

2 Corinthians 5:1

We know that if the earthly tent we live in is torn down, we have a building in heaven that comes from God, an eternal house not built by human hands.

Galatians 5:22

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Ephesians 1:15

Therefore, because I have heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,

Ephesians 2:1

You used to be dead because of your offenses and sins

Ephesians 2:5

even when we were dead because of our offenses, made us alive together with the Messiah (by grace you have been saved),

Colossians 1:4

because we have heard about your faith in the Messiah Jesus and the love that you have for all the saints,

Hebrews 6:10-11

For God is not so unjust as to forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have ministered to the saints and continue to minister to them.

Hebrews 13:1

Let brotherly love continue.

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.

2 Peter 1:7

your godliness with brotherly kindness, and your brotherly kindness with love.

1 John 2:3

This is how we can be sure that we have come to know him: if we continually keep his commandments.

1 John 2:9-11

The person who says that he is in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness.

1 John 3:23

And this is his commandment: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus the Messiah, and to love one another as he commanded us.

1 John 4:7-8

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 4:12

No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us.

1 John 4:20-21

Whoever says, "I love God," but hates his brother is a liar. The one who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love the God whom he has not seen.

1 John 5:13

I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.

1 John 5:19-20

We know that we are from God and that the whole world lies under the control of the evil one.

Psalm 16:3

As for the saints that are in the land, they are noble, and all my delight is in them.

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