1 John 3:11-18

21st Century King James Version

¹¹ For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning: that we should love one another.

¹² Be not as Cain, who was of that wicked one and slew his brother. And why did he slay him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

¹³ Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.

¹⁴ We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

¹⁵ Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer, and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

¹⁶ Hereby we perceive the love of God: because He laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

¹⁷ But whoso hath this world’s goods and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up the compassion of his heart from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

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