Verse 6

And this is love, that we should walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, even as ye heard from the beginning, that ye should walk in it.

Referenced Verses

• 1 John 5:3 : 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
• 1 John 2:24 : 24 As for you, let that abide in you which ye heard from the beginning. If that which ye heard from the beginning abide in you, ye also shall abide in the Son, and in the Father.
• 1 John 2:5 : 5 but whoso keepeth his word, in him verily hath the love of God been perfected. Hereby we know that we are in him:
• John 14:15 : 15 If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments.
• John 15:10 : 10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
• John 15:14 : 14 Ye are my friends, if ye do the things which I command you.
• Rom 13:8-9 : 8 Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law. 9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not covet, and if there be any other commandment, it is summed up in this word, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
• 2 John 1:5 : 5 And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote to thee a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
• Gal 5:13-14 : 13 For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only [use] not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another. 14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, [even] in this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
• John 14:21 : 21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself unto him.
• 1 John 5:15 : 15 and if we know that he heareth us whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.