1 John 3:16
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.In other versions
Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
ASV
In this we see what love is, because he gave his life for us; and it is right for us to give our lives for the brothers.
BBE
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.
DBY
By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
WEB
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;
YLT
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.
ENG
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.
WBT
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.
BSB
In context
14We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
15Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
16Hereby 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.
17But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
18My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.