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.
By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
We know love by this, that He laid down His love forus; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
By this we come to know (progressively to recognize, to perceive, to understand) the [essential] love: that He laid down His [own] life for us; and we ought to lay [our] lives down for [those who are our] brothers [in Him].
In this we have come to know by experience the aforementioned love, because that One on behalf of us laid down His soul. And, as for us, we have a moral obligation on behalf of our brethren to lay down our souls.
We know what love is because Christ laid down His life for us. We must in turn lay down our lives for our brothers.
We know what love is from the fact that He laid down His life for us; and so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
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