2 John 1:6

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

This is love:  that we walk according to his commands.  This is the command as you have heard it from the beginning: that you walk in love.

Cross References

1 John 5:3

For this is what love for God is: to keep his commands. And his commands are not a burden,

1 John 2:24

What you have heard from the beginning is to remain in you. If what you have heard from the beginning remains in you, then you will remain in the Son  and in the Father.

1 John 2:5

But whoever keeps his word,  truly in him the love of God is made complete. This is how we know we are in him:

John 15:10

If you keep my commands you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.

John 14:15

‘If you love me, you will keep   my commands.

John 15:14

You are my friends if you do what I command you.

John 14:21

The one who has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me.   And the one who loves me will be loved by my Father.   I also will love him and will reveal myself to him.’

1 John 5:15

And if we know that he hears whatever we ask,  we know that we have what we have asked of him.

2 John 1:5

So now I ask you, dear lady #– #not as if I were writing you a new command, but one we have had from the beginning #– #that we love one another.

Deuteronomy 13:4

You must follow the Lord your God and fear him. You must keep his commands and listen to him; you must worship him and remain faithful  to him.

John 14:23

Jesus answered, ‘If anyone loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

1 John 2:7

Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command  but an old command that you have had from the beginning. The old command is the word  you have heard.