1 John 5:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

In this way, we are certain that we have love for the children of God, when we have love for God and keep his laws.

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  • 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:
  • 1 John 3:22-24 : 22 And he gives us all our requests, because we keep his laws and do the things which are pleasing in his eyes. 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.
  • John 13:34-35 : 34 I give you a new law: Have love one for another; even as I have had love for you, so are you to have love one for another. 35 By this it will be clear to all men that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another.
  • 1 John 4:21 : 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.
  • John 15:17 : 17 So this is my law for you: Have love one for another.

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  • 1 John 2:3-6
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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:

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

  • 1 John 5:3
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    3 For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.

  • 1 John 5:1
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    1 Everyone who has faith that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God: and everyone who has love for the Father has love for his child.

  • 1 John 3:22-24
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    22 And he gives us all our requests, because we keep his laws and do the things which are pleasing in his eyes.

    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.

  • 1 John 4:6-13
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    6 We are of God: he who has the knowledge of God gives ear to us; he who is not of God does not give ear to us. By this we may see which is the true spirit, and which is the spirit of error.

    7 My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.

    8 He who has no love has no knowledge of God, because God is love.

    9 And the love of God was made clear to us when he sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him.

    10 And this is love, not that we had love for God, but that he had love for us, and sent his Son to be an offering for our sins.

    11 My loved ones, if God had such love for us, it is right for us to have love for one another.

    12 No man has ever seen God: if we have love for one another, God is in us and his love is made complete in us:

    13 And his Spirit which he has given us is the witness that we are in him and he is in us.

  • 1 John 4:19-21
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    19 We have the power of loving, because he first had love for us.

    20 If a man says, I have love for God, and has hate for his brother, his words are false: for how is the man who has no love for his brother whom he has seen, able to have love for God whom he has not seen?

    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.

  • 2 John 1:4-6
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    4 It gave me great joy to see some of your children walking in the true way, even as we were ordered to do by the Father.

    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.

  • 1 John 3:14
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    14 We are conscious that we have come out of death into life because of our love for the brothers. He who has no love is still in death.

  • 1 John 3:16
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    16 In this we see what love is, because he gave his life for us; and it is right for us to give our lives for the brothers.

  • 1 John 4:16-17
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    16 And we have seen and had faith in the love which God has for us. God is love, and everyone who has love is in God, and God is in him.

    17 In this way love is made complete in us, so that we may be without fear on the day of judging, because as he is, so are we in this world.

  • 1 John 3:18-19
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    18 My little children, do not let our love be in word and in tongue, but let it be in act and in good faith.

    19 In this way we may be certain that we are true, and may give our heart comfort before him,

  • 1 John 3:10-11
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    10 In this way it is clear who are the children of God and who are the children of the Evil One; anyone who does not do righteousness or who has no love for his brother, is not a child of God.

    11 Because this is the word which was given to you from the first, that we are to have love for one another;

  • 1 John 5:18-21
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    18 We are certain that one who is a child of God will do no sin, but the Son of God keeps him so that he is not touched by the Evil One.

    19 We are certain that we are of God, but all the world is in the power of the Evil One.

    20 And we are certain that the Son of God has come, and has given us a clear vision, so that we may see him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

    21 My little children, keep yourselves from false gods.

  • 1 John 2:28-29
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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.

  • 1 John 3:1-2
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    1 See what great love the Father has given us in naming us the children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not see who we are, because it did not see who he was.

    2 My loved ones, now we are children of God, and at present it is not clear what we are to be. We are certain that at his revelation we will be like him; for we will see him as he is.

  • John 15:10
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    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 14:15
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    15 If you have love for me, you will keep my laws.

  • John 14:21
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    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.

  • Eph 5:1
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    1 Let it then be your desire to be like God, as well-loved children;

  • John 13:35
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    35 By this it will be clear to all men that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another.

  • 1 Cor 8:3
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    3 But if anyone has love for God, God has knowledge of him.

  • 1 John 5:15
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    15 And if we are certain that he gives ear to all our requests, we are equally certain that we will get our requests.

  • 2 John 1:9
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    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.

  • 1 John 5:13
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    13 I have put these things in writing for you who have faith in the name of the Son of God, so that you may be certain that you have eternal life.

  • 1 Thess 4:2
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    2 Because you have in mind the orders we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

  • John 15:12
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    12 This is the law I give you: Have love one for another, even as I have love for you.