1 John 3:16
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.
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Study Note
John's statement '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' makes the cross the epistemological ground for knowing what love is (agapē) and the ontological ground for its community replication. The parallel structure is striking: God's self-giving for us becomes the measure and mandate for our self-giving for each other — cruciform love is both indicative (this is what love looks like) and imperative (therefore we ought to love this way). John 15:13 ('greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends') provides the dominical source of this principle. Paul's parallel in Romans 5:8 ('God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us') differs in that Paul emphasises the absence of prior worthiness, while John moves immediately to the communal implication of the cross.
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Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down;
In this we see what love is, because he gave his life for us; and it is right for us to give our lives for the brothers.
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