1 John 2:6

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The one who says he resides in God ought himself to walk just as Jesus walked.

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  • 1 Pet 2:21 : 21 For to this you were called, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving an example for you to follow in his steps.
  • John 13:15 : 15 For I have given you an example– you should do just as I have done for you.
  • Matt 11:29 : 29 Take my yoke on you and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
  • 1 Cor 11:1 : 1 Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ.
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.
  • John 15:4-6 : 4 Remain in me, and I will remain in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me. 5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me– and I in him– bears much fruit, because apart from me you can accomplish nothing. 6 If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out like a branch, and dries up; and such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, and are burned up.
  • 1 John 2:4 : 4 The one who says“I have come to know God” and yet does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in such a person.
  • 1 John 2:28 : 28 Children of God And now, little children, remain in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink away from him in shame when he comes back.
  • 1 John 3:6 : 6 Everyone who resides in him does not sin; everyone who sins has neither seen him nor known him.
  • 1 John 1:6-7 : 6 If we say we have fellowship with him and yet keep on walking in the darkness, we are lying and not practicing the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
  • Ps 85:13 : 13 Deliverance goes before him, and prepares a pathway for him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 John 2:3-5
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    3Keeping God’s Commandments Now by this we know that we have come to know God: if we keep his commandments.

    4The one who says“I have come to know God” and yet does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in such a person.

    5But whoever obeys his word, truly in this person the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in him.

  • 2 John 1:5-9
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    5Warning Against False Teachers But now I ask you, lady(not as if I were writing a new commandment to you, but the one we have had from the beginning), that we love one another.

    6(Now this is love: that we walk according to his commandments.) This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning; thus you should walk in it.

    7For many deceivers have gone out into the world, people who do not confess Jesus as Christ coming in the flesh. This person is the deceiver and the antichrist!

    8Watch out, so that you do not lose the things we have worked for, but receive a full reward.

    9Everyone who goes on ahead and does not remain in the teaching of Christ does not have God. The one who remains in this teaching has both the Father and the Son.

  • 1 John 3:23-24
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    23Now this is his commandment: that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he gave us the commandment.

    24And the person who keeps his commandments resides in God, and God in him. Now by this we know that God resides in us: by the Spirit he has given us.

  • 1 John 1:5-8
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    5God Is Light, So We Must Walk in the Light Now this is the gospel message we have heard from him and announce to you: God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.

    6If we say we have fellowship with him and yet keep on walking in the darkness, we are lying and not practicing the truth.

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

    8If we say we do not bear the guilt of sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.

  • Col 2:6
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    6Warnings Against the Adoption of False Philosophies Therefore, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him,

  • 1 John 3:6-7
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    6Everyone who resides in him does not sin; everyone who sins has neither seen him nor known him.

    7Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Jesus is righteous.

  • 1 John 2:24-25
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    24As for you, what you have heard from the beginning must remain in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.

    25Now this is the promise that he himself made to us: eternal life.

  • 1 John 2:7-10
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    7Dear friends, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have already heard.

    8On the other hand, I am writing a new commandment to you which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.

    9The one who says he is in the light but still hates his fellow Christian is still in the darkness.

    10The one who loves his fellow Christian resides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him.

  • 1 John 2:28-29
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    28Children of God And now, little children, remain in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink away from him in shame when he comes back.

    29If you know that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered by him.

  • 1 John 4:15-17
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    15If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God resides in him and he in God.

    16And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has in us. God is love, and the one who resides in love resides in God, and God resides in him.

    17By this love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, because just as Jesus is, so also are we in this world.

  • Phil 3:16-17
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    16Nevertheless, let us live up to the standard that we have already attained.

    17Be imitators of me, brothers and sisters, and watch carefully those who are living this way, just as you have us as an example.

  • 1 John 4:11-13
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    11Dear friends, if God so loved us, then we also ought to love one another.

    12No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God resides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

    13By this we know that we reside in God and he in us: in that he has given us of his Spirit.

  • Gal 5:25
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    25If we live by the Spirit, let us also behave in accordance with the Spirit.

  • 1 John 3:11
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    11God Is Love, So We Must Love One Another For this is the gospel message that you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another,

  • John 15:9-10
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    9“Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you; remain in my love.

    10If you obey my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.

  • 1 John 4:21
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    21And the commandment we have from him is this: that the one who loves God should love his fellow Christian too.

  • John 15:4
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    4Remain in me, and I will remain in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me.

  • 1 Thess 4:1
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    1A Life Pleasing to God Finally then, brothers and sisters, we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received instruction from us about how you must live and please God(as you are in fact living) that you do so more and more.

  • 1 John 1:3
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    3What we have seen and heard we announce to you too, so that you may have fellowship with us(and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ).

  • 1 John 5:2
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    2By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and obey his commandments.

  • 1 John 1:10
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    10If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar and his word is not in us.

  • 1 John 3:14
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    14We know that we have crossed over from death to life because we love our fellow Christians. The one who does not love remains in death.

  • 1 Cor 11:1
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    1Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ.

  • 3 John 1:11
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    11Dear friend, do not imitate what is bad but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does what is bad has not seen God.

  • 1 John 3:4
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    4Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; indeed, sin is lawlessness.

  • 1 Pet 1:15
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    15but, like the Holy One who called you, become holy yourselves in all of your conduct,

  • Ps 15:2
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    2Whoever lives a blameless life, does what is right, and speaks honestly.

  • Eph 5:1
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    1Live in Love Therefore, be imitators of God as dearly loved children