1 John 2:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

He who says that he is living in him, will do as he did.

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  • 1 Pet 2:21 : 21 This is God's purpose for you: because Jesus himself underwent punishment for you, giving you an example, so that you might go in his footsteps:
  • John 13:15 : 15 I have given you an example, so that you may do what I have done to you.
  • Matt 11:29 : 29 Take my yoke on you and become like me, for I am gentle and without pride, and you will have rest for your souls;
  • 1 Cor 11:1 : 1 So take me for your example, even as I take Christ for mine.
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.
  • John 15:4-6 : 4 Be in me at all times as I am in you. As the branch is not able to give fruit of itself, if it is not still on the vine, so you are not able to do so if you are not in me. 5 I am the vine, you are the branches: he who is in me at all times as I am in him, gives much fruit, because without me you are able to do nothing. 6 If a man does not keep himself in me, he becomes dead and is cut off like a dry branch; such branches are taken up and put in the fire and burned.
  • 1 John 2:4 : 4 The man who says, I have knowledge of him, and does not keep his laws, is false, and there is nothing true in him:
  • 1 John 2:28 : 28 And now, my children, keep your hearts in him; so that at his revelation, we may have no fear or shame before him at his coming.
  • 1 John 3:6 : 6 Anyone who is in him does no sin; anyone who is a sinner has not seen him and has no knowledge of him.
  • 1 John 1:6-7 : 6 If we say we are joined to him, and are walking still in the dark, our words are false and our acts are untrue: 7 But if we are walking in the light, as he is in the light, we are all united with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son makes us clean from all sin.
  • Ps 85:13 : 13 Righteousness will go before him, making a way for his footsteps.

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    3 And by this we may be certain that we have knowledge of him, if we keep his laws.

    4 The man who says, I have knowledge of him, and does not keep his laws, is false, and there is nothing true in him:

    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:

  • 2 John 1:5-9
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    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.

    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.

    7 Because a number of false teachers have gone out into the world, who do not give witness that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. Such a one is a false teacher and Antichrist.

    8 Keep watch over yourselves, so that you do not make our work of no effect, but may get your full reward.

    9 Anyone who goes on and does not keep to the teaching of Christ, has not God: he who keeps to the teaching has the Father and the Son.

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    23 And this is his law, that we have faith in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love for one another, even as he said to us.

    24 He who keeps his laws is in God and God is in him. And the Spirit which he gave us is our witness that he is in us.

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    5 This is the word which came to us from him and which we give to you, that God is light and in him there is nothing dark.

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    7 But if we are walking in the light, as he is in the light, we are all united with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son makes us clean from all sin.

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    7 My little children, let no man take you out of the true way: he who does righteousness is upright, even as he is upright;

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    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.

    25 And this is the hope which he gave you, even eternal life.

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    7 My loved ones, I do not give you a new law, but an old law which you had from the first; this old law is the word which came to your ears.

    8 Again, I give you a new law, which is true in him and in you; for the night is near its end and the true light is even now shining out.

    9 He who says that he is in the light, and has hate in his heart for his brother, is still in the dark.

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    28 And now, my children, keep your hearts in him; so that at his revelation, we may have no fear or shame before him at his coming.

    29 If you have knowledge that he is upright, it is clear to you that everyone who does righteousness is his offspring.

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    21 And this is the word which we have from him, that he who has love for God is to have the same love for his brother.

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    4 Be in me at all times as I am in you. As the branch is not able to give fruit of itself, if it is not still on the vine, so you are not able to do so if you are not in me.

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    10 If we say that we have no sin, we make him false and his word is not in us.

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