1 John 2:7

Contemporary English Version 1995

My dear friends, I am not writing to give you a new commandment. It is the same one you were first given, and it is the message you heard.

Cross References

Leviticus 19:18

Don't be angry or try to take revenge. I am the Lord, and I command you to love others as much as you love yourself.

1 John 3:11

From the beginning you were told we must love each other.

1 John 3:23

God wants us to have faith in his Son Jesus Christ and to love each other. This is also what Jesus taught us to do.

Deuteronomy 6:5

So love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and strength.

Leviticus 19:34

Instead, treat them as well as you treat your own people and love them as much as you love yourself. Remember, you were once foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

1 John 2:24

Keep thinking about the message you first heard, and you will always be one in your heart with the Son and with the Father.

Matthew 5:43

You have heard people say, “Love your neighbors and hate your enemies.”

Acts 17:19

They brought Paul before a council called the Areopagus, and said, “Tell us what your new teaching is all about.

John 13:34

But I am giving you a new command. You must love each other, just as I have loved you.

Hebrews 6:9

My friends, we are talking this way. But we are sure that you are doing those really good things people do when they are being saved.

1 John 3:2

My dear friends, we are already God's children, though what we will be hasn't yet been seen. But we do know when Christ returns, we will be like him, because we will see him as he truly is.

1 John 3:21

Dear friends, if we feel at ease in the presence of God, we will have the courage to come near him.

1 John 4:1

Dear friends, don't believe everyone who claims to have the Spirit of God. Test them all to find out if they really do come from God. Many false prophets have already gone out into the world,

1 John 4:7

My dear friends, we must love each other. Love comes from God, and when we love each other, it shows we have been given new life. We are now God's children, and we know him.

1 John 4:11

Dear friends, since God loved us this much, we must love each other.

1 John 4:21

The commandment that God has given us is: “Love God and love each other!”