1 John 3

16 This is how we have come to know love: He laid down his life  * 3:16 Jn 10:11,14,17–18; 13:37–38; 15:13 for us.  * 3:16 Is 53:10; Mk 10:45 We should also lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.  * 3:16 Mk 8:34–35; 1Co 11:1; Php 2:5–817 If anyone has this world’s goods  * 3:17 Mk 12:44; Lk 15:12; 1Jn 2:16 and sees a fellow believer  * 3:17 Lit sees his brother or sister in need  * 3:17 Ac 2:45 but withholds compassion  * 3:17 2Co 7:15 from him — how does God’s love reside in him?  * 3:17 Jms 2:15–16; 1Jn 2:518 Little children, let us not love in word or speech, but in action and in truth.  * 3:18 Mt 7:21; Jn 13:34–35; 15:12–17; Jms 1:22–25; 2:14–17