2 John 1:6

Contemporary English Version 1995

Love means we do what God tells us. And from the beginning, he told you to love him.

Cross References

1 John 5:3

We show our love for God by obeying his commandments, and they are not hard to follow.

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.

1 John 2:5

We truly love God only when we obey him as we should, and then we know we belong to him.

John 15:10

If you obey me, I will keep loving you, just as my Father keeps loving me, because I have obeyed him.

John 14:15

Jesus said to his disciples: If you love me, you will do as I command.

John 15:14

And you are my friends, if you obey me.

John 14:21

If you love me, you will do what I have said, and my Father will love you. I will also love you and show you what I am like.

1 John 5:15

And if we know God listens when we pray, we are sure our prayers have already been answered.

2 John 1:5

Dear friend, I am not writing to tell you and your children to do something you have not done before. I am writing to tell you to love each other, which is the first thing you were told to do.

Deuteronomy 13:4

You must be completely faithful to the Lord. Worship and obey only the Lord and do this with fear and trembling,

John 14:23

Jesus replied: If anyone loves me, they will obey me. Then my Father will love them, and we will come to them and live in them.

1 John 2:7

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.