1 John 3:18
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My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.
In other translations
My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.
Greek words
Word by word from STEPBible's tagged Greek New Testament, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0. Words marked TR or NA appear in only one of the two main Greek texts.
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