2 John 1:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment just as you have heard it from the beginning—you must walk in it.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ And what this love consists in is this: that we live and walk in accordance with and guided by His commandments (His orders, ordinances, precepts, teaching). This is the commandment, as you have heard from the beginning, that you continue to walk in love [guided by it and following it].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ And this is love, that we should walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, even as ye heard from the beginning, that ye should walk in it.

Common English Bible

⁶ This is love: that we live according to his commands. This is the command that you heard from the beginning: live in love.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ And this is love: that we walk according to his commandments. For this is the commandment that you have heard in the same way from the beginning, and in which you should walk.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ And this is charity, that we walk according to his commandments. For this is the commandment, that, as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in the same:

2 John 1:6 Cross References

John 14:15

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

John 14:21

They who have my commandments and keep them are those who love me, and those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them.”

John 14:23

Jesus answered him, “Those who love me will keep my word, and my Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.

John 15:10

If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.

John 15:14

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

Deuteronomy 13:4

The Lord your God you shall follow, him alone you shall fear, his commandments you shall keep, his voice you shall obey, him you shall serve, and to him you shall hold fast.

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 2:5

but whoever obeys his word, truly in this person the love of God has reached perfection. By this we know that we are in him:

1 John 2:7

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.

1 John 5:15

And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have obtained the requests made of him.

1 John 5:3

For the love of God is this, that we obey his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome,

2 John 1:5

But now, dear lady, I ask you, not as though I were writing you a new commandment but one we have had from the beginning: let us love one another.