1 John 3:23

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Now 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.

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Referenced Verses

  • John 13:34 : 34 “I give you a new commandment– to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
  • John 15:12 : 12 My commandment is this– to love one another just as I have loved you.
  • 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 You have purified your souls by obeying the truth in order to show sincere mutual love. So love one another earnestly from a pure heart.
  • 1 Pet 4:8 : 8 Above all keep your love for one another fervent, because love covers a multitude of sins.
  • 1 John 3:11 : 11 God 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 6:29 : 29 Jesus replied,“This is the deed God requires– to believe in the one whom he sent.”
  • 1 John 4:21 : 21 And the commandment we have from him is this: that the one who loves God should love his fellow Christian too.
  • 1 John 2:8-9 : 8 On 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. 9 The one who says he is in the light but still hates his fellow Christian is still in the darkness. 10 The one who loves his fellow Christian resides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him.
  • 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.
  • 1 Thess 4:9 : 9 Now on the topic of brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.
  • Mark 9:7 : 7 Then a cloud overshadowed them, and a voice came from the cloud,“This is my one dear Son. Listen to him!”
  • Matt 22:39 : 39 The second is like it:‘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 you– from your fellow Israelites; you must listen to him. 16 This accords with what happened at Horeb in the day of the assembly. You asked the LORD your God:“Please do not make us hear the voice of the LORD our God any more or see this great fire any more lest we die.” 17 The LORD then said to me,“What they have said is good. 18 I will raise up a prophet like you for them from among their fellow Israelites. I will put my words in his mouth and he will speak to them whatever I command. 19 I will personally hold responsible anyone who then pays no attention to the words that prophet speaks in my name.
  • John 17:3 : 3 Now this is eternal life– that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you 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 Jesus’ Parting Words to His Disciples“Do not let your hearts be distressed. You believe in God; believe also in me.
  • Ps 2:12 : 12 Give sincere homage! Otherwise he will be angry, and you will die because of your behavior, when his anger quickly ignites. How blessed are all who take shelter in him!

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 John 3:24
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    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.

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

    4I rejoiced greatly because I have found some of your children living according to the truth, just as the Father commanded us.

    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.

  • 1 John 3:22
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    22and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing to him.

  • John 15:12
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    12My commandment is this– to love one another just 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 revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness– the one who does not love his fellow Christian– is not of God.

    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,

  • 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.

  • 1 John 5:1-3
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    1Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been fathered by God, and everyone who loves the father loves the child fathered by him.

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

    3For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments do not weigh us down,

  • 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.

  • 1 John 2:3
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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.

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

    35Everyone will know by this that you are my disciples– if you have love for one another.”

  • John 15:17
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    17This I command you– to love one another.

  • 1 John 3:16
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    16We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.

  • 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 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.

  • 1 John 2:5-6
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    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.

    6The one who says he resides in God ought himself to walk just as Jesus walked.

  • 1 John 3:18-19
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    18Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue but in deed and truth.

    19And by this we will know that we are of the truth and will convince our conscience in his presence,

  • 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.

  • 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 4:9
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    9By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we may 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, just as we do for you,

  • John 14:15
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    15Teaching on the Holy Spirit“If you love me, you will obey my commandments.

  • 2 John 1:9
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    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 3:1
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    1(See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God’s children– and indeed we are! For this reason 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 may have eternal life.”

    16For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

  • 1 John 4:19
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    19We love because he loved us first.

  • 1 John 5:13
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    13Assurance of Eternal Life I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.

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

  • John 14:23
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    23Jesus replied,“If anyone loves me, he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up residence with him.

  • 1 John 4:7
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    7God is Love Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.

  • 1 John 5:11
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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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    20And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us insight to know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.

  • John 14:21
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    21The person who has my commandments and obeys 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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    25Now this is the promise that he himself made to us: eternal life.

  • 1 John 1:7
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    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.

  • 1 John 2:8
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    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.