2 John 1:5

World English Bible (2000)

Now 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.

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  • 1 John 3:11 : 11 For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;
  • 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."
  • John 15:12 : 12 "This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
  • Gal 5:22 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
  • 1 Thess 4:9 : 9 But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,
  • Heb 13:1 : 1 Let brotherly love continue.
  • 1 Pet 1:22-23 : 22 Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently: 23 having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.
  • 1 Pet 4:8 : 8 And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
  • 2 Pet 1:7 : 7 and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.
  • 1 John 2:7-8 : 7 Brothers, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning. 8 Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shines.
  • 1 John 3:14-18 : 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. 15 Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him. 16 By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 17 But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him? 18 My little children, let's not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.
  • 1 John 3:23 : 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.
  • 1 John 4:7-9 : 7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God. 8 He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love. 9 By 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. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.
  • 1 John 4:20 : 20 If 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?

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  • 2 John 1:6-7
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    6 This 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.

    7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don't confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.

  • 1 John 2:5-8
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    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.

    7 Brothers, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning.

    8 Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shines.

  • 1 John 3:11
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    11 For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

  • 2 John 1:1-4
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    1 The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth; and not I only, but also all those who know the truth;

    2 for the truth's sake, which remains in us, and it will be with us forever:

    3 Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

    4 I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we have been commanded by the Father.

  • John 13:34-35
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    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 3:23-24
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    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.

  • 1 John 1:1-5
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    1 That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life

    2 (and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us);

    3 that 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.

    4 And we write these things to you, that our joy may be fulfilled.

    5 This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

  • John 15:17
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    17 "I command these things to you, that you may love one another.

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

  • 1 John 2:24-25
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    24 Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father.

    25 This is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life.

  • 1 John 4:11-12
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    11 Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

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

  • 1 John 2:13-15
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    13 I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you know the Father.

    14 I have written to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

    15 Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.

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

  • 3 John 1:1
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    1 The elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth.

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

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

  • 1 John 4:7
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    7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.

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

  • John 15:9-10
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    9 Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.

    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 Thess 4:9
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    9 But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,

  • 3 John 1:5
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    5 Beloved, you do a faithful work in whatever you accomplish for those who are brothers and strangers.

  • 1 Thess 3:12
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    12 and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

  • 1 Thess 4:1-2
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    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 4:19
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    19 We love him, because he first loved us.

  • 1 Tim 1:5
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    5 but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith;

  • 3 John 1:3
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    3 For I rejoiced greatly, when brothers came and testified about your truth, even as you walk in truth.

  • 1 John 2:28
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    28 Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

  • 1 Tim 1:3
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    3 As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,

  • 2 Cor 2:8
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    8 Therefore I beg you to confirm your love toward him.

  • 1 Pet 1:22
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    22 Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:

  • 2 John 1:9
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    9 Whoever 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.