Verse 6

And love is the keeping of his laws. This is the law which was given to you from the first, so that you might keep it.

Referenced Verses

• 1 John 5:3 : 3 For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.
• 1 John 2:24 : 24 But as for you, keep in your hearts the things which were made clear to you from the first. If you keep these things in your hearts you will be kept in the Father and the Son.
• 1 John 2:5 : 5 But in every man who keeps his word, the love of God is made complete. By this we may be certain that we are in him:
• John 14:15 : 15 If you have love for me, you will keep my laws.
• John 15:10 : 10 If you keep my laws, you will be ever in my love, even as I have kept my Father's laws, and am ever in his love.
• John 15:14 : 14 You are my friends, if you do what I give you orders to do.
• Rom 13:8-9 : 8 Be in debt for nothing, but to have love for one another: for he who has love for his neighbour has kept all the law. 9 And this, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not put to death, Do not take what is another's, Do not have desire for what is another's, and if there is any other order, it is covered by this word, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.
• 2 John 1:5 : 5 And now, my sister, I make a request to you, not sending you a new law, but the law which we had from the first, that we have love for one another.
• Gal 5:13-14 : 13 Because you, brothers, were marked out to be free; only do not make use of your free condition to give the flesh its chance, but through love be servants one to another. 14 For all the law is made complete in one word, even in this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.
• John 14:21 : 21 He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him.
• 1 John 5:15 : 15 And if we are certain that he gives ear to all our requests, we are equally certain that we will get our requests.