1 John 5:2

World English Bible (2000)

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.

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  • 1 John 2:5 : 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:
  • 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.
  • John 13:34-35 : 34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."
  • 1 John 4:21 : 21 This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.
  • John 15:17 : 17 "I command these things to you, that you may love one another.

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  • 1 John 2:3-6
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    3This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.

    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 5:3
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    3For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

  • 1 John 5:1
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    1Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.

  • 1 John 3:22-24
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    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 John 4:6-13
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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.

    9By this God's love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

    10In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

    11Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

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

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

  • 1 John 4:19-21
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    19We love him, because he first loved us.

    20If a man says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn't love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

    21This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

  • 2 John 1:4-6
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    4I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we have been commanded by the Father.

    5Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

    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 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.

  • 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 3:18-19
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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,

  • 1 John 3:10-11
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    10In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn't do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn't love his brother.

    11For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

  • 1 John 5:18-21
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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.

    21Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • 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."

  • Eph 5:1
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    1Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

  • John 13:35
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    35By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."

  • 1 Cor 8:3
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    3But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

  • 1 John 5:15
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    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.

  • 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 5:13
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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.

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

  • John 15:12
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    12"This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.