Verse 3

Keeping God’s Commandments Now by this we know that we have come to know God: if we keep his commandments.

Referenced Verses

  • John 14:15 : 15 Teaching on the Holy Spirit“If you love me, you will obey my commandments.
  • John 15:10 : 10 If you obey my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.
  • 1 John 4:13 : 13 By this we know that we reside in God and he in us: in that he has given us of his Spirit.
  • 1 John 5:3 : 3 For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments do not weigh us down,
  • 1 John 5:19 : 19 We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
  • 1 Thess 4:1-2 : 1 A Life Pleasing to God Finally then, brothers and sisters, we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received instruction from us about how you must live and please God(as you are in fact living) that you do so more and more. 2 For you know what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
  • 1 John 2:4-6 : 4 The one who says“I have come to know God” and yet does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in such a person. 5 But whoever obeys his word, truly in this person the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in him. 6 The one who says he resides in God ought himself to walk just as Jesus walked.
  • John 15:14 : 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you.
  • 1 John 3:19 : 19 And by this we will know that we are of the truth and will convince our conscience in his presence,
  • 1 John 3:22-24 : 22 and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing to him. 23 Now this is his commandment: that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he gave us the commandment. 24 And the person who keeps his commandments resides in God, and God in him. Now by this we know that God resides in us: by the Spirit he has given us.
  • Luke 6:46 : 46 “Why do you call me‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do what I tell you?
  • John 14:21-24 : 21 The person who has my commandments and obeys them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him.” 22 “Lord,” Judas(not Judas Iscariot) said,“what has happened that you are going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?” 23 Jesus replied,“If anyone loves me, he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up residence with him. 24 The person who does not love me does not obey my words. And the word you hear is not mine, but the Father’s who sent me.
  • Ps 119:6 : 6 Then I would not be ashamed, if I were focused on all your commands.
  • Ps 119:32 : 32 I run along the path of your commands, for you enable me to do so.
  • Isa 53:11 : 11 Having suffered, he will reflect on his work, he will be satisfied when he understands what he has done.“My servant will acquit many, for he carried their sins.
  • 1 John 3:14 : 14 We know that we have crossed over from death to life because we love our fellow Christians. The one who does not love remains in death.
  • Heb 5:9 : 9 And by being perfected in this way, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,
  • Rev 22:14 : 14 Blessed are those who wash their robes so they can have access to the tree of life and can enter into the city by the gates.
  • John 17:3 : 3 Now this is eternal life– that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.
  • 2 Cor 4:6 : 6 For God, who said“Let light shine out of darkness,” is the one who shined in our hearts to give us the light of the glorious knowledge of God in the face of Christ.