The Commandment to Love One Another

1 John 3:11-18

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

not as Cain was of the evil one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

Marvel not, brethren, if the world hateth you.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not abideth in death.

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

Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

But whoso hath the world’s goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him?

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