1 John 2:3 - The Scriptures 2009

³ And by this we know that we know Him, if we guard His commands.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ And this is how we may discern [daily, by experience] that we are coming to know Him [to perceive, recognize, understand, and become better acquainted with Him]: if we keep (bear in mind, observe, practice) His teachings (precepts, commandments).

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And hereby we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

Common English Bible

³ This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And we can be sure that we have known him by this: if we observe his commandments.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And by this we know that we have known him, if we keep his commandments.

1 John 2:3 Cross References

Psalm 119:32

I run the way of Your commands, For You enlarge my heart.

Psalm 119:6

Then I would not be ashamed, When I look into all Your commands.

Isaiah 53:11

He would see the result of the suffering of His life and be satisfied. Through His knowledge My righteous Servant makes many righteous, and He bears their crookednesses.

Luke 6:46

“But why do you call Me ‘Master, Master,’ and do not do what I say?

John 14:15

“If you love Me, you shall guard My commands.

John 15:10

“If you guard My commands, you shall stay in My love even as I have guarded My Father’s commands and stay in His love.

John 15:14

“You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.

John 17:3

“And this is everlasting life, that they should know You, the only true Elohim, and יהושע Messiah whom You have sent.

2 Corinthians 4:6

For Elohim, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” is the One who has shone in our hearts for the enlightening of the knowledge of the esteem of Elohim in the face of יהושע Messiah.

Hebrews 5:9

And having been perfected, He became the Causer of everlasting deliverance to all those obeying Him,

1 John 2:13

I write to you, fathers, because you have known Him from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the wicked one. I write to you, little children, because you have known the Father.

1 John 3:14

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. The one not loving his brother stays in death.

1 John 3:19

And by this we know that we are of the truth, and shall set our hearts at rest before Him,

1 John 3:6

Everyone staying in Him does not sin. Everyone sinning has neither seen Him nor known Him.

1 John 4:13

By this we know that we stay in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.

1 John 4:7

Beloved ones, let us love one another, because love is of Elohim, and everyone who loves has been born of Elohim, and knows Elohim.

1 John 5:19

We know that we are of Elohim, and all the world lies in the wicked one.

1 John 5:2

By this we know that we love the children of Elohim, when we love Elohim and guard His commands.

1 John 5:3

For this is the love for Elohim, that we guard His commands, and His commands are not heavy,

Revelation 12:17

And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to fight with the remnant of her seed, those guarding the commands of Elohim and possessing the witness of יהושע Messiah.

Revelation 14:12

Here is the endurance of the set-apart ones, here are those guarding the commands of Elohim and the belief of יהושע.

Revelation 22:14

“Blessed are those doing His commands, so that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of life, and to enter through the gates into the city.