1 John 3:18 - The Scriptures 1998

¹⁸ My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ Little children, let us not love [merely] in theory or in speech but in deed and in truth (in practice and in sincerity).

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ My little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ Little children, let’s not love with words or speech but with action and truth.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ My little sons, let us not love in words only, but in works and in truth.

1 John 3:18 Cross References

Exodus 33:21

And יהוה  said, “See, there is a place with Me! And you shall stand on the rock.

Ezekiel 33:31

“And they come to you as people do, and they sit before you as My people, and they hear your words, but they do not do them. For with their mouth they show much love – their hearts pursue their greedy gain.

Luke 7:5

for he loves our nation, and has built the congregation for us.”

John 17:19

“And for them I set Myself apart, so that they too might be set apart in truth.

Romans 12:9

Let love be without hypocrisy. Shrink from what is wicked, cling to what is good.

Galatians 5:13

For you, brothers, have been called to freedom, only do not use freedom as an occasion for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

Ephesians 4:15

but, maintaining the truth in love, we grow up in all respects into Him who is the head, Messiah,

1 Thessalonians 1:3

remembering without ceasing your work of the belief, and the labour of love, and the endurance of the expectation in our Master יהושע  Messiah in the presence of our Elohim and Father,

1 Peter 1:22

Now that you have cleansed your lives in obeying the truth through the Spirit to unfeigned brotherly love, love one another fervently with a clean heart,

1 John 2:1

My little children, I write this to you, so that you do not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Intercessor with the Father, יהושע  Messiah, a righteous One.

1 John 3:7

Little children, let no one lead you astray. The one doing righteousness is righteous, even as He is righteous.

2 John 1:1

The elder, to a chosen Kuria and her children, whom I love in truth, and not only I, but also all those who have known the truth,

3 John 1:1

The elder, to the beloved Gaios, whom I love in truth: