1 John 2:3

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We know that we have come to know Him if we keep His commandments.

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  • John 14:15 : 15 If you love me, keep my commandments.
  • John 15:10 : 10 If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.
  • 1 John 4:13 : 13 By this, we know that we remain in Him and He in us: He has given us of His Spirit.
  • 1 John 5:3 : 3 For this is the love of God: that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome.
  • 1 John 5:19 : 19 We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.
  • 1 Thess 4:1-2 : 1 Finally, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, just as you received instructions from us on how you ought to live and please God, that you would excel even more. 2 For you know the commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
  • 1 John 2:4-6 : 4 Anyone who claims, 'I have come to know Him,' but does not keep His commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in them. 5 But whoever keeps His word, truly in that person the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him. 6 Whoever says they abide in Him must also walk as He walked.
  • John 15:14 : 14 You are my friends if you do what I command.
  • 1 John 3:19 : 19 By this we will know that we belong to the truth and will reassure our hearts in His presence.
  • 1 John 3:22-24 : 22 And whatever we ask, we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do what pleases Him. 23 Now this is His commandment: that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as He commanded us. 24 The one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us: through the Spirit He has given us.
  • Luke 6:46 : 46 Why do you call me 'Lord, Lord,' but do not do what I say?
  • John 14:21-24 : 21 The one who has my commandments and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him. 22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, 'Lord, how is it that you are going to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?' 23 Jesus answered, 'If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him.' 24 The one who does not love me does not keep my words. The word you hear is not my own but belongs to the Father who sent me.
  • Ps 119:6 : 6 Then I would not be ashamed when I consider all Your commandments.
  • Ps 119:32 : 32 I run in the path of Your commandments, for You have broadened my heart.
  • Isa 53:11 : 11 After his suffering, he will see the result and be satisfied. By his knowledge, my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities.
  • 1 John 3:14 : 14 We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers and sisters. The one who does not love remains in death.
  • Heb 5:9 : 9 And having been made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him.
  • Rev 22:14 : 14 Blessed are those who keep His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates.
  • John 17:3 : 3 Now this is eternal life: that they know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.
  • 2 Cor 4:6 : 6 For God, who said, 'Let light shine out of darkness,' has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of God's glory displayed in the face of Jesus Christ.

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  • 1 John 2:4-6
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    4Anyone who claims, 'I have come to know Him,' but does not keep His commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in them.

    5But whoever keeps His word, truly in that person the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him.

    6Whoever says they abide in Him must also walk as He walked.

  • 1 John 5:2-3
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    2This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and keeping His commandments.

    3For this is the love of God: that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome.

  • 1 John 3:18-24
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    18Little children, let us not love with words or tongue, but with actions and in truth.

    19By this we will know that we belong to the truth and will reassure our hearts in His presence.

    20For whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart and knows all things.

    21Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God.

    22And whatever we ask, we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do what pleases Him.

    23Now this is His commandment: that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as He commanded us.

    24The one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us: through the Spirit He has given us.

  • 1 Cor 8:2-3
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    2If anyone thinks they know something, they do not yet know as they ought to know.

    3But if anyone loves God, they are known by Him.

  • 1 John 4:13
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    13By this, we know that we remain in Him and He in us: He has given us of His Spirit.

  • 1 John 4:16-17
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    16And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in them.

    17In this, love has been made complete with us, so that we may have confidence on the day of judgment, because as He is, so also are we in this world.

  • 1 John 5:18-20
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    18We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin; the One who was born of God keeps them safe, and the evil one cannot harm them.

    19We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.

    20We also know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know 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.

  • 1 John 5:13-15
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    13I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know you have eternal life, and so that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.

    14This is the confidence we have before Him: If we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.

    15And if we know that He hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we already have what we have asked of Him.

  • 1 John 4:6-8
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    6We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this, we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

    7Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

    8The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

  • 2 John 1:6
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    6And this is love: that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

  • 1 John 3:14
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    14We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers and sisters. The one who does not love remains in death.

  • 1 John 1:10
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    10If we claim we have not sinned, we make Him out to be a liar, and His word is not in us.

  • John 14:15
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    15If you love me, keep my commandments.

  • 1 John 2:28-29
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    28And now, dear children, remain in Him, so that when He appears we may have confidence and not be ashamed before Him at His coming.

    29If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.

  • John 15:10
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    10If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.

  • 1 John 3:5-6
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    5You know that He appeared to take away sins, and in Him there is no sin.

    6No one who abides in Him keeps on sinning; no one who continues to sin has seen Him or known Him.

  • 1 John 1:6-8
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    6If we claim to have fellowship with Him yet walk in darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth.

    7But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His Son, cleanses us from all sin.

    8If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.

  • John 14:21
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    21The one who has my commandments and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him.

  • 1 John 3:16
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    16This is how we have come to know love: He laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.

  • John 8:55
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    55Yet you do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I know him and I keep his word.

  • 1 Thess 4:2
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    2For you know the commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

  • 2 John 1:9
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    9Anyone who goes beyond and does not remain in the teaching of Christ does not have God. Whoever remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

  • 1 John 2:20
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    20But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.

  • John 14:23
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    23Jesus answered, 'If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him.'

  • 1 John 3:1-2
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    1See how great a love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and this is what we are! The world does not know us because it did not know Him.

    2Beloved, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. But we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.

  • 1 John 4:21
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    21And this commandment we have from Him: Whoever loves God must also love their brother or sister.

  • 1 John 1:3
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    3what we have seen and heard we declare to you, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And truly, our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ.

  • John 3:11
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    11Truly, truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but you do not accept our testimony.