2 John 1:6

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and 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,

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  • 1 John 5:3 : 3 for this is the love of God, that His commands we may keep, and His commands are not burdensome;
  • 1 John 2:24 : 24 Ye, 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,
  • 1 John 2:5 : 5 and whoever may keep his word, truly in him the love of God hath been perfected; in this we know that in him we are.
  • John 14:15 : 15 `If ye love me, my commands keep,
  • John 15:10 : 10 if 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;
  • John 15:14 : 14 ye are my friends, if ye may do whatever I command you;
  • Rom 13:8-9 : 8 To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other -- law he hath fulfilled, 9 for, `Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false testimony, Thou shalt not covet;' and if there is any other command, in this word it is summed up, in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself;'
  • 2 John 1:5 : 5 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,
  • Gal 5:13-14 : 13 For ye -- to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another, 14 for all the law in one word is fulfilled -- in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself;'
  • John 14:21 : 21 he who is having my commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving me, and he who is loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.'
  • 1 John 5:15 : 15 and if we have known that He doth hear us, whatever we may ask, we have known that we have the requests that we have requested from Him.

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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;

    5and 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,

  • 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 3:22-24
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    22and whatever we may ask, we receive from Him, because His commands we keep, and the things pleasing before Him we do,

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

  • 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;

  • 2 John 1:7-9
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    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.

    8See to yourselves that ye may not lose the things that we wrought, but a full reward may receive;

    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;

  • 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 2:3
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    3and in this we know that we have known him, if his commands we may keep;

  • John 15:12
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    12`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

  • 1 John 1:1-3
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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;

  • 1 John 1:5-7
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    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;

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    7and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light -- we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;

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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;

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

  • 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.'

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

  • 1 John 4:16-17
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    16and we -- we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him.

    17In this made perfect hath been the love with us, that boldness we may have in the day of the judgment, because even as He is, we -- we also are in this world;

  • 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 14:15
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    15`If ye love me, my commands keep,

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

  • 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;

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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,

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    6as, then, ye did receive Christ Jesus the Lord, in him walk ye,

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    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,

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    16in 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;

  • John 14:21
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    21he who is having my commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving me, and he who is loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.'

  • 1 John 3:14
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    14we -- 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.

  • 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,