2 John 1:6

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

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  • 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.

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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.

    5And 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.

  • 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 3:22-24
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    22and whatsoever we ask we receive of him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

    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.

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

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    2Hereby we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do his commandments.

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    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.

    8Look to yourselves, that ye lose not the things which we have wrought, but that ye receive a full reward.

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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.

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

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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);

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    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.

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    17These things I command you, that ye may love one another.

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

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    15If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments.

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    19We love, because he first loved us.

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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.

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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.

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