2 John 1:6

Bible in Basic English 1965

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.

Cross References

John 14:15

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

John 14:21

He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him.

John 14:23

Jesus said to him in answer, If anyone has love for me, he will keep my words: and he will be dear to my Father; and we will come to him and make our living-place with him.

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.

Deuteronomy 13:4

But keep on in the ways of the Lord your God, fearing him and keeping his orders and hearing his voice, worshipping him and being true to him.

1 John 2:24

But as for you, keep in your hearts the things which were made clear to you from the first. If you keep these things in your hearts you will be kept in the Father and the Son.

1 John 2:5

But in every man who keeps his word, the love of God is made complete. By this we may be certain that we are in him:

1 John 2:7

My loved ones, I do not give you a new law, but an old law which you had from the first; this old law is the word which came to your ears.

1 John 5:15

And if we are certain that he gives ear to all our requests, we are equally certain that we will get our requests.

1 John 5:3

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

2 John 1:5

And now, my sister, I make a request to you, not sending you a new law, but the law which we had from the first, that we have love for one another.