11 translations · Greek
1 John 3:16
By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
1 John 3:16 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
- KJV King James Version
- Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
- ASV American Standard Version
- Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- in this we have known love, because He laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down [our] lives for the brothers;
- FBV Free Bible Version
- This is how we know what love is: Jesus laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our Christian brothers and sisters.
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down;
- DBY Darby Translation
- Hereby we have known love, because he has laid down his life for us; and we ought for the brethren to lay down [our] lives.
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- By this 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.
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- In this we have known the charity of God, because he hath laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
The Greek words
Each word of the Greek text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ἐν | En | By | G1722 ἐν in/on/among |
| τούτῳ | toutō | this | G3778 οὗτος this/he/she/it |
| ἐγνώκαμεν | egnōkamen | we know | G1097 γινώσκω to know |
| τὴν | tēn | what | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| ἀγάπην | agapēn | love [is] | G26 ἀγάπη love |
| ὅτι | hoti | — | G3754 ὅτι that/since: that |
| ἐκεῖνος | ekeinos | [Jesus] | G1565 ἐκεῖνος that |
| ὑπὲρ | hyper | for | G5228 ὑπέρ above/for |
| ἡμῶν | hēmōn | us | G1473 ἐγώ I/we |
| τὴν | tēn | — | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| ψυχὴν | psychēn | life | G5590 ψυχή soul |
| αὐτοῦ | autou | His | G846 αὐτός it/s/he |
| ἔθηκεν | ethēken | laid down | G5087 τίθημι to place |
| καὶ | kai | and | G2532 καί and |
| ἡμεῖς | hēmeis | we | G1473 ἐγώ I/we |
| ὀφείλομεν | opheilomen | ought | G3784 ὀφείλω to owe |
| ὑπὲρ | hyper | for | G5228 ὑπέρ above/for |
| τῶν | tōn | [our] | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| ἀδελφῶν | adelphōn | brothers | G80 ἀδελφός brother |
| τὰς | tas | [our] | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| ψυχὰς | psychas | lives | G5590 ψυχή soul |
| θεῖναι | theinai | to lay down | G5087 τίθημι to place |
Related verses
- 1 John 4:9–11
By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins. Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
- Ephesians 5:2
Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
- John 13:34
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.
- John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
- Romans 5:8
But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
- John 15:12–13
“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
- Revelation 1:5
and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood;
- 1 Peter 3:18
Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
- Acts 20:28
Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.
- Matthew 20:28
even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
14 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.
15 Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.
16 By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
17 But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?
18 My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.
Read all of 1 John 3 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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