NEW TESTAMENT

1 John 3:16

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By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

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Verse 16. The charity of God, [2] because he hath laid down his life for us. Jesus Christ, therefore, who laid down his life for us, was God. It is true at present the words of God are wanting in most Greek MSS.: yet the Prot. translation has them. Witham.

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