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Thursday, July 31st, 2025
the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

约翰壹书 3:11

應當彼此相愛我們應當彼此相愛,因為這是你們從起初聽見的信息。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Commandments;   Love;   Righteousness;   Wicked (People);   The Topic Concordance - Hate;   Love;   World;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Doctrine;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Union to Christ;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Old Testament;   Satan;   Holman Bible Dictionary - John, the Letters of;   Suffering;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - John, Epistles of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - John Epistles of;   Love;   Sanctify, Sanctification;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Beginning;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Vagabond;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - John the Baptist;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Brotherly Kindness;   John, the Epistles of;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
我 们 应 当 彼 此 相 爱 。 这 就 是 你 们 从 起 初 所 听 见 的 命 令 。

Contextual Overview

11 This is the teaching you have heard from the beginning: We must love each other. 12 Do not be like Cain who belonged to the Evil One and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because the things Cain did were evil, and the things his brother did were good. 13 Brothers and sisters, do not be surprised when the people of the world hate you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

this: 1 John 1:5, 1 John 2:7, 1 John 2:8

message: or, commandment, 1 Timothy 1:5,*Gr.

that we: 1 John 4:7, 1 John 4:21, John 13:34, John 13:35, John 15:12, Galatians 6:2, Ephesians 5:2, 1 Thessalonians 4:9, 1 Peter 1:22, 1 Peter 3:8, 1 Peter 4:8, 2 John 1:5

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 11:4 - against Isaiah 59:15 - he that Matthew 23:35 - the blood of righteous Acts 7:26 - ye are 1 Corinthians 6:6 - brother 1 Thessalonians 3:12 - love Hebrews 11:4 - faith 1 John 3:23 - love

Cross-References

Genesis 4:10
Then the Lord said, "What have you done? Your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground.
Psalms 50:21
I have kept quiet while you did these things, so you thought I was just like you. But I will scold you and accuse you to your face.
Romans 3:20
because no one can be made right with God by following the law. The law only shows us our sin.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For this is the message,.... Sent from God by Christ, or what he in his ministry declared, and is the commandment which was so frequently urged by him, John 13:34;

that ye have heard from the beginning; of the preaching of the Gospel to them, and of their conversion; see 1 John 2:7;

that we should love one another; to which the command of Christ, the reason with which it is enforced, and the early notice of it, should engage.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For this is the message - Margin, “commandment.” In the received text, this is ἀγγελία angelia - “a message brought;” in several manuscripts, and in later editions, it is ἐπαγγελία epangelia - “annunciation, announcement;” an order given, or a commandment, Acts 23:21. It is not very material which reading is followed. The word “command” or “rule” would express the sense with sufficient clearness. The reference is to the law given by the Saviour as a permanent direction to his disciples.

That ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another - See the John 13:34-35 notes; 1 John 2:7 note.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 11. For this is the message — See 1 John 1:5. From the beginning God hath taught men that they should love one another. How essentially necessary this is to the comfort and well-being of man in this state of trial and difficulty, every sensible man must see. All are dependent upon all; all upon each, and each upon all. Mutual love makes this dependence pleasant and doubly profitable. Nothing can be more pleasing to an ingenuous and generous mind than to communicate acts of kindness.


 
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