1 John 5:3 - Revised Standard Version CI

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

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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.

1 John 5:3 Cross References

John 14:15

“If you love me, you will 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 abide in his love.

2 John 1:6

And this is love, that we follow his commandments; this is the commandment, as you have heard from the beginning, that you follow love.

1 John 2:3

And by this we may be sure that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

Deuteronomy 7:9

Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,

Micah 6:8

He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Romans 7:22

For I delight in the law of God, in my inmost self,

John 15:14

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

Daniel 9:4

I prayed to the Lord my God and made confession, saying, “O Lord, the great and terrible God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments,

Hebrews 8:10

This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Romans 7:12

So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.

Proverbs 3:17

Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

Psalm 119:140

Thy promise is well tried, and thy servant loves it.

Psalm 119:45

and I shall walk at liberty, for I have sought thy precepts.

Deuteronomy 5:10

but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Exodus 20:6

but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Matthew 23:4

They bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with their finger.

2 Kings 18:6

For he held fast to the Lord; he did not depart from following him, but kept the commandments which the Lord commanded Moses.