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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>1 John 3:18 Catholic Bible: My children, our love should not be just words and talk; it must be true love, which shows itself in action. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/1_john/3-18.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/1_john/3-18.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/1_john/3-18.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/1_john/1.htm">1 John</a> > <a href="/gntd/1_john/3.htm">Chapter 3</a> > Verse 18</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_john/3-17.htm" title="1 John 3:17">◄</a> 1 John 3:18 <a href="../1_john/3-19.htm" title="1 John 3:19">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/1_john/3.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/1_john/3.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />My children, our love should not be just words and talk; it must be true love, which shows itself in action. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/1_john/3.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/1_john/3.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Children, you show love for others by truly helping them, and not merely by talking about it. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/1_john/3.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Children, let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/1_john/3.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />My little children, let us not love in word nor in tongue, but in deed and in truth.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">My little children, let us not love in word nor in tongue, but in deed and in truth.</p><p class="hdg">My.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_john/2-1.htm">1 John 2:1</a> My little children, these things I write to you, that you may not sin. But if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the just.</p><p class="hdg">let.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/33-21.htm">Exodus 33:21</a> And again he said: Behold there is a place with me, and thou shalt stand upon the rock.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/25-41.htm">Matthew 25:41-45</a> Then he shall say to them also that shall be on his left hand: Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire, which was prepared for the devil and his angels. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../romans/12-9.htm">Romans 12:9</a> Let love be without dissimulation. Hating that which is evil, cleaving to that which is good,</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_corinthians/13-4.htm">1 Corinthians 13:4-7</a> Charity is patient, is kind: charity envieth not, dealeth not perversely, is not puffed up, . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../galatians/5-13.htm">Galatians 5:13</a> For you, brethren, have been called unto liberty. Only make not liberty an occasion to the flesh: but by charity of the spirit serve one another.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../galatians/6-1.htm">Galatians 6:1,2</a> Brethren, and if a man be overtaken in any fault, you, who are spiritual, instruct such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ephesians/4-1.htm">Ephesians 4:1-3,15</a> I therefore, a prisoner in the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation in which you are called: . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_thessalonians/1-3.htm">1 Thessalonians 1:3</a> Being mindful of the work of your faith and labour and charity: and of the enduring of the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ before God and our Father.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../james/2-15.htm">James 2:15,16</a> And if a brother or sister be naked and want daily food: . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_peter/1-22.htm">1 Peter 1:22</a> Purifying your souls in the obedience of charity, with a brotherly love, from a sincere heart love one another earnestly:</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/1_john/3.htm">Love One Another</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">17</span>He that hath the substance of this world and shall see his brother in need and shall shut up his bowels from him: how doth the charity of God abide in him? <span class="reftext">18</span><span class="highl">My little children, let us not love in word nor in tongue, but in deed and in truth.</span> <span class="reftext">19</span>In this we know that we are of the truth and in his sight shall persuade our hearts.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ezekiel/33-31.htm">Ezekiel 33:31</a></span><br />And they come to thee, as if people were coming in, and my people sit before thee: and hear thy words, and do them not: for they turn them into a song of their mouth, and their heart goeth after their covetousness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/17-19.htm">John 17:19</a></span><br />And for them do I sanctify myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_john/2-1.htm">1 John 2:1</a></span><br />My little children, these things I write to you, that you may not sin. But if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the just.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_john/3-7.htm">1 John 3:7</a></span><br />Little children, let no man deceive you. He that doth justice is just, even as he is just.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_john/1-1.htm">2 John 1:1</a></span><br />The Ancient to the lady Elect and her children, whom I love in the truth: and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../3_john/1-1.htm">3 John 1:1</a></span><br />The Ancient, to the dearly beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/1_john/3-10.htm">Act</a> <a href="/1_john/3-12.htm">Actions</a> <a href="/1_john/3-10.htm">Children</a> <a href="/1_john/3-7.htm">Dear</a> <a href="/1_john/2-5.htm">Deed</a> <a href="/2_peter/3-13.htm">Faith</a> <a href="/1_john/3-17.htm">Good</a> <a href="/hebrews/13-15.htm">Lips</a> <a href="/1_john/3-7.htm">Little</a> <a href="/2_peter/2-16.htm">Speech</a> <a href="/1_peter/3-10.htm">Tongue</a> <a href="/1_john/2-27.htm">Truth</a> <a href="/1_john/3-11.htm">Word</a> <a href="/1_john/1-6.htm">Words</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/revelation/2-5.htm">Act</a> <a href="/revelation/19-8.htm">Actions</a> <a href="/1_john/4-4.htm">Children</a> <a href="/1_john/3-21.htm">Dear</a> <a href="/genesis/34-7.htm">Deed</a> <a href="/1_john/3-23.htm">Faith</a> <a href="/2_john/1-8.htm">Good</a> <a href="/exodus/6-12.htm">Lips</a> <a href="/1_john/4-4.htm">Little</a> <a href="/genesis/4-23.htm">Speech</a> <a href="/revelation/5-9.htm">Tongue</a> <a href="/1_john/3-19.htm">Truth</a> <a href="/1_john/4-3.htm">Word</a> <a href="/1_john/4-20.htm">Words</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/1_john/3-18.htm">1 John 3:18 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/1_john/3-18.htm">1 John 3:18 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/1_john/3-18.htm">1 John 3:18 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/1_john/3-18.htm">1 John 3:18 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/1_john/3-18.htm">1 John 3:18 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/1_john/3-18.htm">1 John 3:18 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/1_john/3-18.htm">1 John 3:18 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/1_john/3-18.htm">1 John 3:18 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/1_john/3-18.htm">1 John 3:18 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: actions and but children Dear deed in let Little love not or tongue truth us with word words<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/1_john/3-18.htm">NT Letters: 1 John 3:18 My little children let's not love (1J iJ 1Jn i jn 1 jo) Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools</a><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="/catholic/">Catholic Bible</a><br /><br /><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../1_john/3-17.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 John 3:17"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 John 3:17" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../1_john/3-19.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 John 3:19"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 John 3:19" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#f7f7f7"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="8261988112"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div></td></tr></table><br /><br /></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>