Bible Verses–1 John 3:16-18

August 20, 2024

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 brothers. 17But whoever has this world’s good, and sees his brother have need, and shuts up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwells the love of God in him? 18My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

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Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

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For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created to this time, neither shall be.