“By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. 1 John 3 contains 24 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.