1 John 2:3

World English Bible (2000)

This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.

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Referenced Verses

  • 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; even 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, because he has given us of his Spirit.
  • 1 John 5:3 : 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
  • 1 John 5:19 : 19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
  • 1 Thess 4:1-2 : 1 Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more. 2 For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
  • 1 John 2:4-6 : 4 One who says, "I know him," and doesn't keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn't in him. 5 But whoever keeps his word, God's love has most certainly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him: 6 he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.
  • John 15:14 : 14 You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.
  • 1 John 3:19 : 19 And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him,
  • 1 John 3:22-24 : 22 and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight. 23 This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded. 24 He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.
  • Luke 6:46 : 46 "Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and don't do the things which I say?
  • John 14:21-24 : 21 One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. 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, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?" 23 Jesus answered him, "If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him. 24 He who doesn't love me doesn't keep my words. The word which you hear isn't mine, but the Father's who sent me.
  • Ps 119:6 : 6 Then I wouldn't be disappointed, when I consider all of your commandments.
  • Ps 119:32 : 32 I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free. HEY
  • Isa 53:11 : 11 After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.
  • 1 John 3:14 : 14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn't love his brother remains in death.
  • Heb 5:9 : 9 Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,
  • Rev 22:14 : 14 Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.
  • John 17:3 : 3 This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
  • 2 Cor 4:6 : 6 seeing it is God who said, "Light will shine out of darkness," who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

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  • 1 John 2:4-6
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    4One who says, "I know him," and doesn't keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn't in him.

    5But whoever keeps his word, God's love has most certainly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him:

    6he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

  • 1 John 5:2-3
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    2By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.

    3For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

  • 1 John 3:18-24
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    18My little children, let's not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

    19And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him,

    20because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

    21Beloved, if our hearts don't condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

    22and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

    23This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

    24He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

  • 1 Cor 8:2-3
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    2But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn't yet know as he ought to know.

    3But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

  • 1 John 4:13
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    13By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

  • 1 John 4:16-17
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    16We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

    17In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.

  • 1 John 5:18-20
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    18We know that whoever is born of God doesn't sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn't touch him.

    19We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

    20We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

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

    14This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

    15And if we know that he listens to us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.

  • 1 John 4:6-8
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    6We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn't listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

    7Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.

    8He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.

  • 2 John 1:6
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    6This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

  • 1 John 3:14
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    14We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn't love his brother remains in death.

  • 1 John 1:10
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    10If we say that we haven't sinned, we make him 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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    28Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

    29If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of him.

  • John 15:10
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    10If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even 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 was revealed to take away our sins, and in him is no sin.

    6Whoever remains in him doesn't sin. Whoever sins hasn't seen him, neither knows him.

  • 1 John 1:6-8
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    6If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don't tell 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 Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

    8If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

  • John 14:21
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    21One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. 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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    16By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

  • John 8:55
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    55You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, 'I don't know him,' I would be like you, a liar. But I know him, and keep his word.

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

  • 2 John 1:9
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    9Whoever transgresses and doesn't remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn't have God. He who remains in the teaching, the same has both the Father and the Son.

  • 1 John 2:20
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    20You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.

  • John 14:23
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    23Jesus answered him, "If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

  • 1 John 3:1-2
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    1Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.

    2Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

  • 1 John 4:21
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    21This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

  • 1 John 1:3
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    3that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

  • John 3:11
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    11Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don't receive our witness.