2 John 1:5

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and now I beseech thee, Kyria, not as writing to thee a new command, but which we had from the beginning, that we may love one another,

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  • 1 John 3:11 : 11 because this is the message that ye did hear from the beginning, that we may love one another,
  • John 13:34-35 : 34 `A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another; 35 in this shall all know that ye are my disciples, if ye may have love one to another.'
  • John 15:12 : 12 `This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;
  • Gal 5:22 : 22 And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,
  • 1 Thess 4:9 : 9 And concerning the brotherly love, ye have no need of `my' writing to you, for ye yourselves are God-taught to love one another,
  • Heb 13:1 : 1 Let brotherly love remain;
  • 1 Pet 1:22-23 : 22 Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly, 23 being begotten again, not out of seed corruptible, but incorruptible, through a word of God -- living and remaining -- to the age;
  • 1 Pet 4:8 : 8 and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;
  • 2 Pet 1:7 : 7 and in the piety the brotherly kindness, and in the brotherly kindness the love;
  • 1 John 2:7-8 : 7 Brethren, a new command I write not to you, but an old command, that ye had from the beginning -- the old command is the word that ye heard from the beginning; 8 again, a new command I write to you, which thing is true in him and in you, because the darkness doth pass away, and the true light doth now shine;
  • 1 John 3:14-18 : 14 we -- we have known that we have passed out of the death to the life, because we love the brethren; he who is not loving the brother doth remain in the death. 15 Every one who is hating his brother -- a man-killer he is, and ye have known that no man-killer hath life age-during in him remaining, 16 in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down; 17 and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him -- how doth the love of God remain in him? 18 My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!
  • 1 John 3:23 : 23 and this is His command, that we may believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and may love one another, even as He did give command to us,
  • 1 John 4:7-9 : 7 Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God; 8 he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love. 9 In this was manifested the love of God in us, because His Son -- the only begotten -- hath God sent to the world, that we may live through him; 10 in this is the love, not that we loved God, but that He did love us, and did send His Son a propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if thus did God love us, we also ought one another to love; 12 God no one hath ever seen; if we may love one another, God in us doth remain, and His love is having been perfected in us;
  • 1 John 4:20 : 20 if any one may say -- `I love God,' and his brother he may hate, a liar he is; for he who is not loving his brother whom he hath seen, God -- whom he hath not seen -- how is he able to love?

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    6and this is the love, that we may walk according to His commands; this is the command, even as ye did hear from the beginning, that in it ye may walk,

    7because many leading astray did enter into the world, who are not confessing Jesus Christ coming in flesh; this one is he who is leading astray, and the antichrist.

  • 1 John 2:5-8
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    5and whoever may keep his word, truly in him the love of God hath been perfected; in this we know that in him we are.

    6He who is saying in him he doth remain, ought according as he walked also himself so to walk.

    7Brethren, a new command I write not to you, but an old command, that ye had from the beginning -- the old command is the word that ye heard from the beginning;

    8again, a new command I write to you, which thing is true in him and in you, because the darkness doth pass away, and the true light doth now shine;

  • 1 John 3:11
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    11because this is the message that ye did hear from the beginning, that we may love one another,

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    1The Elder to the choice Kyria, and to her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those having known the truth,

    2because of the truth that is remaining in us, and with us shall be to the age,

    3there shall be with you grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

    4I rejoiced exceedingly that I have found of thy children walking in truth, even as a command we did receive from the Father;

  • John 13:34-35
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    34`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;

    35in this shall all know that ye are my disciples, if ye may have love one to another.'

  • 1 John 3:23-24
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    23and this is His command, that we may believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and may love one another, even as He did give command to us,

    24and he who is keeping His commands, in Him he doth remain, and He in him; and in this we know that He doth remain in us, from the Spirit that He gave us.

  • 1 John 1:1-5
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    1That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we did behold, and our hands did handle, concerning the Word of the Life --

    2and the Life was manifested, and we have seen, and do testify, and declare to you the Life, the age-during, which was with the Father, and was manifested to us --

    3that which we have seen and heard declare we to you, that ye also may have fellowship with us, and our fellowship `is' with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ;

    4and these things we write to you, that your joy may be full.

    5And this is the message that we have heard from Him, and announce to you, that God is light, and darkness in Him is not at all;

  • John 15:17
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    17`These things I command you, that ye love one another;

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    12`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

  • 1 John 2:24-25
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    24Ye, then, that which ye heard from the beginning, in you let it remain; if in you may remain that which from the beginning ye did hear, ye also in the Son and in the Father shall remain,

    25and this is the promise that He did promise us -- the life the age-during.

  • 1 John 4:11-12
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    11Beloved, if thus did God love us, we also ought one another to love;

    12God no one hath ever seen; if we may love one another, God in us doth remain, and His love is having been perfected in us;

  • 1 John 2:13-15
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    13I write to you, fathers, because ye have known him who `is' from the beginning; I write to you, young men, because ye have overcome the evil. I write to you, little youths, because ye have known the Father:

    14I did write to you, fathers, because ye have known him who `is' from the beginning; I did write to you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God in you doth remain, and ye have overcome the evil.

    15Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

  • 1 John 4:21
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    21and this `is' the command we have from Him, that he who is loving God, may also love his brother.

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

  • 1 John 5:2-3
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    2in this we know that we love the children of God, when we may love God, and His commands may keep;

    3for this is the love of God, that His commands we may keep, and His commands are not burdensome;

  • 1 John 4:7
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    7Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;

  • 1 John 3:18
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    18My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

  • John 15:9-10
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    9According as the Father did love me, I also loved you, remain in my love;

    10if my commandments ye may keep, ye shall remain in my love, according as I the commands of my Father have kept, and do remain in His love;

  • 1 Thess 4:9
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    9And concerning the brotherly love, ye have no need of `my' writing to you, for ye yourselves are God-taught to love one another,

  • 3 John 1:5
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    5Beloved, faithfully dost thou do whatever thou mayest work to the brethren and to the strangers,

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

  • 1 Thess 4:1-2
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    1As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more,

    2for ye have known what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus,

  • 1 John 4:19
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    19we -- we love him, because He -- He first loved us;

  • 1 Tim 1:5
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    5And the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned,

  • 3 John 1:3
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    3for I rejoiced exceedingly, brethren coming and testifying of the truth in thee, even as thou in truth dost walk;

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    28And now, little children, remain in him, that when he may be manifested, we may have boldness, and may not be ashamed before him, in his presence;

  • 1 Tim 1:3
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    3according as I did exhort thee to remain in Ephesus -- I going on to Macedonia -- that thou mightest charge certain not to teach any other thing,

  • 2 Cor 2:8
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    8wherefore, I call upon you to confirm love to him,

  • 1 Pet 1:22
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    22Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,

  • 2 John 1:9
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    9every one who is transgressing, and is not remaining in the teaching of the Christ, hath not God; he who is remaining in the teaching of the Christ, this one hath both the Father and the Son;