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18 Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.
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18 Little children, let’s not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.
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18 Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.
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18 Little children (believers, dear ones), let us not love [merely in theory] with word or with tongue [giving lip service to compassion], but in action and in truth [in practice and in sincerity, because practical acts of love are more than words].
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18 Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.
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18 Dear children, don’t just talk about love. Put your love into action. Then it will truly be love.
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