1 John 5:3

Bible in Basic English 1965

For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.

Cross References

2 Kings 18:6

For his heart was fixed on the Lord, not turning from his ways, and he did his orders which the Lord gave to Moses.

Psalm 119:140

Your word is of tested value; and it is dear to your servant.

Psalm 119:45

So that my way may be in a wide place: because my search has been for your orders.

Exodus 20:6

And I will have mercy through a thousand generations on those who have love for me and keep my laws.

Proverbs 3:17

Her ways are ways of delight, and all her goings are peace.

Daniel 9:4

And I made prayer to the Lord my God, putting our sins before him, and said, O Lord, the great God, greatly to be feared. keeping your agreement and mercy with those who have love for you and do your orders;

Micah 6:8

He has made clear to you, O man, what is good; and what is desired from you by the Lord; only doing what is right, and loving mercy, and walking without pride before your God.

Matthew 23:4

They make hard laws and put great weights on men's backs; but they themselves will not put a finger to them.

John 14:15

If you have love for me, you will keep my laws.

John 15:10

If you keep my laws, you will be ever in my love, even as I have kept my Father's laws, and am ever in his love.

John 15:14

You are my friends, if you do what I give you orders to do.

Romans 7:12

But the law is holy, and its orders are holy, upright, and good.

Romans 7:22

In my heart I take pleasure in the law of God,

Deuteronomy 5:10

And I will have mercy through a thousand generations on those who have love for me and keep my laws.

Deuteronomy 7:9

Be certain, then, that the Lord your God is God; whose faith and mercy are unchanging, who keeps his word through a thousand generations to those who have love for him and keep his laws;

Hebrews 8:10

For this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days: I will put my laws into their minds, writing them in their hearts: and I will be their God, and they will be my people:

1 John 2:3

And by this we may be certain that we have knowledge of him, if we keep his laws.

2 John 1:6

And love is the keeping of his laws. This is the law which was given to you from the first, so that you might keep it.