1 John 3:23

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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  • John 13:34 : 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.
  • John 15:12 : 12 "This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
  • 1 Pet 1:22 : 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:
  • 1 Pet 4:8 : 8 And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
  • 1 John 3:11 : 11 For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;
  • John 6:29 : 29 Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent."
  • 1 John 4:21 : 21 This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.
  • 1 John 2:8-9 : 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. 9 He who says he is in the light and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now. 10 He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.
  • 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,
  • Mark 9:7 : 7 A cloud came, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, "This is my beloved Son. Listen to him."
  • Matt 22:39 : 39 A second likewise is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'
  • Deut 18:15-19 : 15 Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from the midst of you, of your brothers, like me; to him you shall listen; 16 according to all that you desired of Yahweh your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of Yahweh my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I not die. 17 Yahweh said to me, They have well said that which they have spoken. 18 I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him. 19 It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
  • John 17:3 : 3 This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
  • Acts 16:31 : 31 They said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household."
  • John 14:1 : 1 "Don't let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.
  • Ps 2:12 : 12 Kiss the son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, For his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 John 3:24
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    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.

  • 2 John 1:3-6
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    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.

    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.

    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.

  • 1 John 3:22
    79%

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

  • 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 3:10-11
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    10 In 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.

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

  • 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.

  • 1 John 5:1-3
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    1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. Whoever loves the father also loves the child who is born of him.

    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 4:11-13
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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.

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

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

  • 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."

  • John 15:17
    76%

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

  • 1 John 3:16
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    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.

  • 1 John 1:3
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    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.

  • 1 John 4:15-17
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    15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God.

    16 We 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.

    17 In 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 2:5-6
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    5 But whoever keeps his word, God's love has most assuredly 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.

  • 1 John 3:18-19
    2 verses
    74%

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

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

  • 1 John 3:14
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    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.

  • 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 John 4:9
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    9 By this was God's love revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

  • 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,

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

  • 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.

  • 1 John 3:1
    73%

    1 Behold, 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.

  • John 3:15-16
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    15 that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

    16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

  • 1 John 4:19
    72%

    19 We love Him, because he first loved us.

  • 1 John 5:13
    72%

    13 These 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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    2 For you know what charge we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

  • John 14:23
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    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.

  • 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 5:11
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    11 The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

  • 1 John 5:20
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    20 We 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.

  • John 14:21
    71%

    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 2:25
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    25 This is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life.

  • 1 John 1:7
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    7 But 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.

  • 1 John 2:8
    70%

    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.