34 (A)A new commandment give I unto you, that ye love one another: as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

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34 “A new command(A) I give you: Love one another.(B) As I have loved you, so you must love one another.(C)

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[a]But as touching brotherly love, ye need not that I write unto you: (A)for ye are taught of God to love one another.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Thessalonians 4:9 Thirdly, he requireth a ready mind to all manner of lovingkindness, and exhorteth them to profit more and more in that virtue.

Now about your love for one another(A) we do not need to write to you,(B) for you yourselves have been taught by God(C) to love each other.(D)

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11 [a]For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that (A)we should love one another,

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Footnotes

  1. 1 John 3:11 The first reason, taken of the authority of God, which giveth the commandment.

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11 For this is the message you heard(A) from the beginning:(B) We should love one another.(C)

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21 (A)[a]And this commandment have we of him, that he that loveth God, should love his brother also.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 John 4:21 A second reason, why God cannot be hated and our neighbor loved, because the selfsame Lawmaker commanded both to love him and our neighbor.

21 And he has given us this command:(A) Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.(B)

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