Popular Bible Verses from I John 3

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My little children, we should not love in word, nor with our tongues; rather, we should love in deed and in truth.

By this very act we have known the love of God because He laid down His life for us: and we ourselves are to lay down our lives for the brethren.

Behold! What glorious love the Father has given to us, that we should be called the children of God! For this very reason, the world does not know us because it did not know Him.

The one who practices sin is of the devil because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God appeared that He might destroy the works of the devil.

Everyone who has been begotten by God does not practice sin because His seed of begettal is dwelling within him, and he is not able to practice sin because he has been begotten by God.

But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his feelings of compassion from him, how can the love of God be dwelling in him?

And the one who keeps His commandments is dwelling in Him, and He in him; and by this we know that He is dwelling in us: by the Spirit which He has given to us.

By this standard are manifest the children of God and the children of the devil. Everyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, and neither is the one who does not love his brother.

For this is the message that you heard from the beginning—that we should love one another

My brethren, do not be amazed if the world hates you.