Love means that we do what God tells us. And from the beginning, he told you to love him.
Jesus said to his disciples: If you love me, you will do as I command.
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.
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.
If you obey me, I will keep loving you, just as my Father keeps loving me, because I have obeyed him.
And you are my friends, if you obey me.
You must be completely faithful to the LORD. Worship and obey only the LORD and do this with fear and trembling,
Keep thinking about the message you first heard, and you will always be one in your heart with the Son and with the Father.
We truly love God only when we obey him as we should, and then we know that we belong to him.
My dear friends, I am not writing to give you a new commandment. It is the same one that you were first given, and it is the message you heard.
And if we know that God listens when we pray, we are sure that our prayers have already been answered.
We show our love for God by obeying his commandments, and they are not hard to follow.
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.