1 John 5:3 - English Majority Text Version 2009

³ For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ For the [true] love of God is this: that we do His commands [keep His ordinances and are mindful of His precepts and teaching]. And these orders of His are not irksome (burdensome, oppressive, or grievous).

American Standard Version (1901)

³ For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

Common English Bible

³ This is the love of God: we keep God’s commandments. God’s commandments are not difficult,

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not heavy.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ For this is the charity of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not heavy.

1 John 5:3 Cross References

Matthew 23:4

For they bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay [them] on men's shoulders; but they do not desire to move them with their finger.

John 14:15

"If you love Me, keep My commandments.

John 15:10

If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and I abide in His love.

John 15:14

You are My friends if you do what I command you.

Romans 7:12

Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy and righteous and good.

Romans 7:22

For I delight in the law of God in my inner being.

Hebrews 8:10

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws in their mind, and I will inscribe them upon their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

1 John 2:3

Now by this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments.

2 John 1:6

This is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, that as you have heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.