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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. |
By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. |
We know love by this, that He laid down His love for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. |
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This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. |
By this we come to know (progressively to recognize, to perceive, to understand) the [essential] love: that He laid down His [own] life for us; and we ought to lay [our] lives down for [those who are our] brothers [in Him]. |
In this we have come to know by experience the aforementioned love, because that One on behalf of us laid down His soul. And, as for us, we have a moral obligation on behalf of our brethren to lay down our souls. |
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We know what love is because Christ laid down His life for us. We must in turn lay down our lives for our brothers. |
We know what love is from the fact that He laid down His life for us; and so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. |
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