2 John 1:6

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • 1 John 5:3 : 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
  • 1 John 2:24 : 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.
  • 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:
  • 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.
  • John 15:14 : 14 You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.
  • Rom 13:8-9 : 8 Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. 9 For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not give false testimony," "You shall not covet," and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
  • 2 John 1:5 : 5 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.
  • Gal 5:13-14 : 13 For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don't use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another. 14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
  • John 14:21 : 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."
  • 1 John 5:15 : 15 And if we know that he listens to us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.

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    1The 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;

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

    3Grace, 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.

    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.

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    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.

    7Brothers, 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.

    8Again, 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 3:22-24
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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.

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    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.

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

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    7For 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.

    8Watch yourselves, that we don't lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.

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    24Therefore, 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.

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

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    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);

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    5This 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.

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    17"I command these things to you, that you may love one another.

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

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    15If you love me, keep my commandments.

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    19We love him, because he first loved us.

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

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    6As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,

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    15Don'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.

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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.

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