1 John 5:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.

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  • John 14:15 : 15 If you have love for me, you will keep my laws.
  • 2 John 1:6 : 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.
  • John 14:21-24 : 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. 22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, How is it that you will let yourself be seen clearly by us and not by the world? 23 Jesus said to him in answer, If anyone has love for me, he will keep my words: and he will be dear to my Father; and we will come to him and make our living-place with him. 24 He who has no love for me does not keep my words; and the word which you are hearing is not my word but the Father's who sent me.
  • 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.
  • 1 John 2:3 : 3 And by this we may be certain that we have knowledge of him, if we keep his laws.
  • Rom 7:22 : 22 In my heart I take pleasure in the law of God,
  • Heb 8:10 : 10 For this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days: I will put my laws into their minds, writing them in their hearts: and I will be their God, and they will be my people:
  • John 15:14 : 14 You are my friends, if you do what I give you orders to do.
  • Rom 7:12 : 12 But the law is holy, and its orders are holy, upright, and good.
  • Prov 3:17 : 17 Her ways are ways of delight, and all her goings are peace.
  • Dan 9:4 : 4 And I made prayer to the Lord my God, putting our sins before him, and said, O Lord, the great God, greatly to be feared. keeping your agreement and mercy with those who have love for you and do your orders;
  • Mic 6:8 : 8 He has made clear to you, O man, what is good; and what is desired from you by the Lord; only doing what is right, and loving mercy, and walking without pride before your God.
  • Matt 11:28-30 : 28 Come to me, all you who are troubled and weighted down with care, and I will give you rest. 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; 30 For my yoke is good, and the weight I take up is not hard.
  • Matt 12:46-50 : 46 While he was still talking to the people, his mother and his brothers came, desiring to have talk with him. 47 And one said to him, See, your mother and your brothers are outside, desiring to have talk with you. 48 But he in answer said to him who gave the news, Who is my mother and who are my brothers? 49 And he put out his hand to his disciples and said, See, my mother and my brothers! 50 For whoever does the pleasure of my Father in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.
  • Exod 20:6 : 6 And I will have mercy through a thousand generations on those who have love for me and keep my laws.
  • Deut 5:10 : 10 And I will have mercy through a thousand generations on those who have love for me and keep my laws.
  • Deut 7:9 : 9 Be certain, then, that the Lord your God is God; whose faith and mercy are unchanging, who keeps his word through a thousand generations to those who have love for him and keep his laws;
  • Deut 10:12-13 : 12 And now, Israel, what would the Lord your God have you do, but to go in the fear of the Lord your God, walking in all his ways and loving him and doing his pleasure with all your heart and all your soul, 13 Doing the orders of the Lord and keeping his laws which I give you this day for your good?
  • Ps 19:7-9 : 7 The law of the Lord is good, giving new life to the soul: the witness of the Lord is certain, giving wisdom to the foolish. 8 The orders of the Lord are right, making glad the heart: the rule of the Lord is holy, giving light to the eyes. 9 The fear of the Lord is clean, and has no end; the decisions of the Lord are true and full of righteousness. 10 More to be desired are they than gold, even than much shining gold; sweeter than the dropping honey. 11 By them is your servant made conscious of danger, and in keeping them there is great reward.
  • Ps 119:45 : 45 So that my way may be in a wide place: because my search has been for your orders.
  • Ps 119:47-48 : 47 And so that I may take delight in your teachings, to which I have given my love. 48 And so that my hands may be stretched out to you; and I will give thought to your rules.
  • Ps 119:103-104 : 103 How sweet are your sayings to my taste! truly, they are sweeter than honey in my mouth! 104 Through your orders I get wisdom; for this reason I am a hater of every false way.
  • Ps 119:127-128 : 127 For this reason I have greater love far your teachings than for gold, even for shining gold. 128 Because of it I keep straight in all things by your orders; and I am a hater of every false way.
  • Ps 119:140 : 140 Your word is of tested value; and it is dear to your servant.

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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.

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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:

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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.

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    9 Even as the Father has given me his love, so I have given my love to you: be ever in my love.

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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.

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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.

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    18 There is no fear in love: true love has no room for fear, because where fear is, there is pain; and he who is not free from fear is not complete in love.

    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.

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

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    10 Love does no wrong to his neighbour, so love makes the law complete.

  • Deut 10:13
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    13 Doing the orders of the Lord and keeping his laws which I give you this day for your good?

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    21 My little children, keep yourselves from false gods.

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    1 So have love for the Lord your God, and give him worship, and keep his laws and his decisions and his orders at all times.

  • John 14:23
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    13 And his Spirit which he has given us is the witness that we are in him and he is in us.

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