1 John 3:23

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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.

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  • John 13:34 : 34 'I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you are also to love one another.'
  • John 15:12 : 12 This is my commandment: Love one another as I have loved you.
  • 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart.
  • 1 Pet 4:8 : 8 Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
  • 1 John 3:11 : 11 For this is the message you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another.
  • John 6:29 : 29 Jesus answered them, 'This is the work of God: that you believe in the one he has sent.'
  • 1 John 4:21 : 21 And this commandment we have from Him: Whoever loves God must also love their brother or sister.
  • 1 John 2:8-9 : 8 Yet I am writing you a new commandment, which is true in Him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining. 9 Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates their brother or sister is still in the darkness. 10 Whoever loves their brother or sister abides in the light, and in them there is no cause for stumbling.
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 And walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself for us, a sacrificial offering to God, a pleasing aroma.
  • 1 Thess 4:9 : 9 Now concerning brotherly love, you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.
  • Mark 9:7 : 7 And a cloud overshadowed them, and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, 'This is my beloved Son. Listen to him!'
  • Matt 22:39 : 39 And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'
  • Deut 18:15-19 : 15 The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people. You must listen to him. 16 This is what you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, 'Let us not hear the voice of the LORD our God or see this great fire anymore, or we will die.' 17 The LORD said to me, 'What they say is good.' 18 I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their fellow Israelites, and I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him. 19 If anyone does not listen to my words that the prophet speaks in my name, I myself will call them to account.
  • John 17:3 : 3 Now this is eternal life: that they know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.
  • Acts 16:31 : 31 They replied, 'Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household.'
  • John 14:1 : 1 Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.
  • Ps 2:12 : 12 Kiss the Son, lest He be angry and you perish in your way, for His wrath can flare up quickly. Blessed are all who take refuge in Him.

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  • 1 John 3:24
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    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.

  • 2 John 1:3-6
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    3Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Father's Son, in truth and love.

    4I was very glad to find some of your children walking in truth, just as we received the commandment from the Father.

    5And now I ask you, dear lady—not as though I am writing you a new commandment, but one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another.

    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 3:22
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    22And whatever we ask, we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do what pleases Him.

  • John 15:12
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    12This is my commandment: Love one another as I have loved you.

  • 1 John 3:10-11
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    10By this the children of God and the children of the devil are distinguished: Anyone who does not practice righteousness and does not love their brother or sister is not of God.

    11For this is the message you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another.

  • 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 5:1-3
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    1Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves His child as well.

    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 4:11-13
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    11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

    12No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.

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

  • 1 John 2:3
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    3We know that we have come to know Him if we keep His commandments.

  • John 13:34-35
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    34'I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you are also to love one another.'

    35'By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.'

  • John 15:17
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    17This is my command: Love one another.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 1 John 4:15-17
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    15Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in them, and they in God.

    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 2:5-6
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    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 3:18-19
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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.

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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.

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    9As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. Now remain in my love.

    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 4:9
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    9By this, the love of God was revealed among us: that God sent His only Son into the world so that we might live through Him.

  • 1 Thess 3:12
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    12And may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another and for all people, just as we also do for you.

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

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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.

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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.

  • John 3:15-16
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    15so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.

    16For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.

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    19We love because He first loved us.

  • 1 John 5:13
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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.

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

  • John 14:23
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  • 1 John 4:7
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    7Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

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    11And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.

  • 1 John 5:20
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    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.

  • 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 2:25
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    25And this is the promise that He Himself made to us: eternal life.

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    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.

  • 1 John 2:8
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    8Yet I am writing you a new commandment, which is true in Him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining.