1 John 2:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment but an old commandment that you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word that you have heard.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the message which you have heard [the doctrine of salvation through Christ].

American Standard Version (1901)

Beloved, no new commandment write I unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning: the old commandment is the word which ye heard.

Common English Bible

Dear friends, I’m not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the message you heard.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Most beloved, I am not writing to you a new commandment, but the old commandment, which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the Word, which you have heard.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Dearly beloved, I write not a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you have heard.

1 John 2:7 Cross References

Leviticus 19:18

You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against any of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.

Leviticus 19:34

The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the native-born among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

Matthew 5:43

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’

John 13:34

I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.

Acts 17:19

So they took him and brought him to the Areopagus and asked him, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?

Deuteronomy 6:5

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

Hebrews 6:9

Even though we speak in this way, beloved, we are confident of better things in your case, things that belong to salvation.

1 John 2:24

Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you will abide in the Son and in the Father.

1 John 3:11

For this is the message you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

1 John 3:2

Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed. What we do know is this: when he is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him as he is.

1 John 3:21

Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have boldness before God,

1 John 3:23

And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.

1 John 4:1

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

1 John 4:11

Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one another.

1 John 4:21

The commandment we have from him is this: those who love God must love their brothers and sisters also.

1 John 4:7

Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.