Verse of the Day

　　

1 John 3:11

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

　　

Translations of Today's Verse

King James Version

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

English Standard Version

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

The Message

For this is the original message we heard: We should love each other.

New King James Version

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

New Living Translation

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

　　

Commentary on Today's Verse

Commentary on 1 John 3:11-15

(Read 1 John 3:11-15)

　　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.

　　

1 John 3:11 In-Context

9 No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God.

　　10 This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God's child, nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister.

　　11 For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another.

　　12 Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother's were righteous.

　　13 Do not be surprised, my brothers and sisters,The Greek word for "brothers and sisters" ("adelphoi" ) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God's family; also in verse 16. if the world hates you.