Accept my reins [on your life], and learn about me, because I am gentle and humble, and [in my service] you will experience rest in your spirits.
1 John 2:6 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition) The person who claims he is continuing to live in [fellowship with] Jesus should also live the way He did. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Whoever says he abides in Him ought [as a personal debt] to walk and conduct himself in the same way in which He walked and conducted Himself. American Standard Version (1901) he that saith he abideth in him ought himself also to walk even as he walked. Common English Bible The one who claims to remain in him ought to live in the same way as he lived. Catholic Public Domain Version Whoever declares himself to remain in him, ought to walk just as he himself walked. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He that saith he abideth in him, ought himself also to walk, even as he walked. |
Accept my reins [on your life], and learn about me, because I am gentle and humble, and [in my service] you will experience rest in your spirits.
For I have set an example for you, so that you should do as I have done for you.
If you obey my commandments, [then] you will continue receiving my love; just as I have obeyed my Father’s commandments and [so] continue receiving His love.
Live in a loving way, just like Christ loved us and gave Himself up [to die] for us as an offering and fragrant smelling sacrifice to God.
[After all], this is what you were called to do, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you would follow in His steps.
And now, little children [i.e., dear ones], continue to live in [fellowship with] Christ, so that when He appears, we may have boldness and not have [any reason] to be ashamed in front of Him at His [second] coming.
The person who says, “I have come to know Him,” but does not obey what He commands, is lying [by such a profession], and the truth [about the matter] is not in his heart.
And God lives in the heart of the person who [continually] obeys His commands, and he lives in [fellowship with] God. And here is [another] way we know that God lives in our hearts: It is by [means of] the Holy Spirit, whom God gave to us. [See Rom. 8:9, 11; James 4:5; I Cor. 6:19].
No person who lives in [fellowship with] Christ will continue living a sinful life; the one who keeps on sinning [however], has not seen Him or known Him [as his personal Savior].
Here is what a complete love will do for us: It will give us boldness in [facing] the judgment day, because the way Jesus acts [regarding love] is the way we should act [while] in this world.