2 John 1:5

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 John 3:11 : 11 For this is the message which ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another:
  • John 13:34-35 : 34 A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. 35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
  • John 15:12 : 12 This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you.
  • Gal 5:22 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.
  • 1 Thess 4:9 : 9 But concerning love of the brethren ye have no need that one write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another;
  • Heb 13:1 : 1 Let love of the brethren continue.
  • 1 Pet 1:22-23 : 22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently: 23 having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which liveth and abideth.
  • 1 Pet 4:8 : 8 above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:
  • 2 Pet 1:7 : 7 and in [your] godliness brotherly kindness; and in [your] brotherly kindness love.
  • 1 John 2:7-8 : 7 Beloved, no new commandment write I unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning: the old commandment is the word which ye heard. 8 Again, a new commandment write I unto you, which thing is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shineth.
  • 1 John 3:14-18 : 14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not abideth in death. 15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. 16 Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 17 But whoso hath the world's goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him? 18 [ My] Little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.
  • 1 John 3:23 : 23 And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he gave us commandment.
  • 1 John 4:7-9 : 7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God. 8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. 9 Herein was the love of God manifested in us, that God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No man hath beheld God at any time: if we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us:
  • 1 John 4:20 : 20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, cannot love God whom he hath not seen.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 John 1:6-7
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    6And 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.

    7For many deceivers are gone forth into the world, [even] they that confess not that Jesus Christ cometh in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist.

  • 1 John 2:5-8
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    5but whoso keepeth his word, in him verily hath the love of God been perfected. Hereby we know that we are in him:

    6he that saith he abideth in him ought himself also to walk even as he walked.

    7Beloved, no new commandment write I unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning: the old commandment is the word which ye heard.

    8Again, a new commandment write I unto you, which thing is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shineth.

  • 1 John 3:11
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    11For this is the message which ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another:

  • 2 John 1:1-4
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    1The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth; and not I only, but also all they that know the truth;

    2for the truth's sake which abideth in us, and it shall be with us for ever:

    3Grace, mercy, peace shall be with us, from God the Father, and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

    4I rejoice greatly that I have found [certain] of thy children walking in truth, even as we received commandment from the Father.

  • John 13:34-35
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    34A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

    35By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

  • 1 John 3:23-24
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    23And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he gave us commandment.

    24And he that keepeth his commandments abideth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

  • 1 John 1:1-5
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    1That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we beheld, and our hands handled, concerning the Word of life

    2(and the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare unto you the life, the eternal [life], which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us);

    3that which we have seen and heard declare we unto you also, that ye also may have fellowship with us: yea, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ:

    4and these things we write, that our joy may be made full.

    5And this is the message which we have heard from him and announce unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

  • John 15:17
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    17These things I command you, that ye may love one another.

  • John 15:12
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    12This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you.

  • 1 John 2:24-25
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    24As 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.

    25And this is the promise which he promised us, [even] the life eternal.

  • 1 John 4:11-12
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    11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

    12No man hath beheld God at any time: if we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us:

  • 1 John 2:13-15
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    13I write unto you, fathers, because ye know him who is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the evil one. I have written unto you, little children, because ye know the Father.

    14I have written unto you, fathers, because ye know him who is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the evil one.

    15Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

  • 1 John 4:21
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    21And this commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God love his brother also.

  • 3 John 1:1
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    1The elder unto Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth.

  • 1 John 5:2-3
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    2Hereby we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do his commandments.

    3For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

  • 1 John 4:7
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    7Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God.

  • 1 John 3:18
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    18[ My] Little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.

  • John 15:9-10
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    9Even as the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide ye in my love.

    10If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

  • 1 Thess 4:9
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    9But concerning love of the brethren ye have no need that one write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another;

  • 3 John 1:5
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    5Beloved, thou doest a faithful work in whatsoever thou doest toward them that are brethren and strangers withal;

  • 1 Thess 3:12
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    12and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also [do] toward you;

  • 1 Thess 4:1-2
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    1Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk,--that ye abound more and more.

    2For ye know what charge we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

  • 1 John 4:19
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    19We love, because he first loved us.

  • 1 Tim 1:5
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    5But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith unfeigned:

  • 3 John 1:3
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    3For I rejoiced greatly, when brethren came and bare witness unto thy truth, even as thou walkest in truth.

  • 1 John 2:28
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    28And now, [my] little children, abide in him; that, if he shall be manifested, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

  • 1 Tim 1:3
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    3As I exhorted thee to tarry at Ephesus, when I was going into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge certain men not to teach a different doctrine,

  • 2 Cor 2:8
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    8Wherefore I beseech you to confirm [your] love toward him.

  • 1 Pet 1:22
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    22Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently:

  • 2 John 1:9
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    9Whosoever goeth onward and abideth not in the teaching of Christ, hath not God: he that abideth in the teaching, the same hath both the Father and the Son.