1John:3:16

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rwp @1John:3:16 @{Know we } (\egn “kamen \). Perfect active indicative , "we have come to know and still know ." See strkjv @2:3 | for "hereby " (\en tout “i \). {Love } (\t ˆn agap ˆn \). "The thing called love " (D . Smith ). {He for us } (\ekeinos huper h ˆm “n \). \Ekeinos \ as in strkjv @2:6 ; strkjv @3:3 ,5 |, \huper \ here alone in this Epistle , though common in John 's Gospel (10:11 ,15 ; strkjv @11:50 |, etc .) and in strkjv @3John:1:7 |. {Laid down his life } (\t ˆn psuch ˆn autou eth ˆken \). First aorist active indicative of \tith ˆmi \, the very idiom used by Jesus of himself in strkjv @John:10:11 ,17f |. {We ought } (\h ˆmeis opheilomen \). Emphatic \h ˆmeis \ again . For \opheil “\ see strkjv @2:6 |. Of course our laying down our lives for the brethren has no atoning value in our cases as in that of Christ , but is a supreme proof of one 's love (John:13:37f .; strkjv @15:13 |), as often happens .

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