2 John 1:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • 1 John 5:3 : 3 For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.
  • 1 John 2:24 : 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.
  • 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:
  • John 14:15 : 15 If you have love for me, you will keep my laws.
  • 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.
  • John 15:14 : 14 You are my friends, if you do what I give you orders to do.
  • Rom 13:8-9 : 8 Be in debt for nothing, but to have love for one another: for he who has love for his neighbour has kept all the law. 9 And this, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not put to death, Do not take what is another's, Do not have desire for what is another's, and if there is any other order, it is covered by this word, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.
  • 2 John 1:5 : 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.
  • Gal 5:13-14 : 13 Because you, brothers, were marked out to be free; only do not make use of your free condition to give the flesh its chance, but through love be servants one to another. 14 For all the law is made complete in one word, even in this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.
  • John 14:21 : 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.
  • 1 John 5:15 : 15 And if we are certain that he gives ear to all our requests, we are equally certain that we will get our requests.

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    1 I, a ruler in the church, send word to the noble sister who is of God's selection, and to her children, for whom I have true love; and not only I, but all who have knowledge of what is true;

    2 Because of this true knowledge which is in us, and will be with us for ever:

    3 May grace, mercy, and peace be with us from God the Father, and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in all true love.

    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.

  • 1 John 2:5-8
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    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.

    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.

  • 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.

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

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    2 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.

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

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

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

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    1 That which was from the first, which has come to our ears, and which we have seen with our eyes, looking on it and touching it with our hands, about the Word of life

    2 (And the life was made clear to us, and we have seen it and are witnessing to it and giving you word of that eternal life which was with the Father and was seen by us);

    3 We give you word of all we have seen and everything which has come to our ears, so that you may be united with us; and we are united with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ:

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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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    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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    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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    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.

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    17 So this is my law for you: Have love one for another.

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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 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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    15 If you have love for me, you will keep my laws.

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

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    19 We have the power of loving, because he first had love for us.

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    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.

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    2 Because you have in mind the orders we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

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    15 Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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    5 But the effect of the order is love coming from a clean heart, and a knowledge of what is right, and true faith: