1 John 2:7

Free Bible Version

My friends, I'm not writing to you giving some new commandment, but an old commandment you've had from the beginning. This old commandment is one you have already heard.

Cross References

Leviticus 19:18

Don't look for revenge or hold a grudge against anybody, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 19:34

Treat them in the same way as a fellow citizen, and love them as you love yourself, because you were once foreigners living in Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

Matthew 5:43

You've heard that the law said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’

John 13:34

I am giving you a new command: Love one another. Love one another in the same way I have loved you.

Acts 17:19

So they took him to the Areopagus, and asked him, “Please tell us about this new teaching that you're promoting.

Deuteronomy 6:5

You shall love the Lord your God with all your mind and with all your being and with all your strength.

Hebrews 6:9

But dear friends, we believe better of you and your salvation, even if we talk like this!

1 John 2:24

As for you, make sure what you heard from the beginning continues to live in you. If what you heard from the beginning lives in you, you will also live in the Son and in the Father.

1 John 3:11

The message you've heard from the beginning is simply this: we should love one another.

1 John 3:2

My friends, we are already God's children; however what we shall become hasn't been revealed just yet. But we do know that when he appears, we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he really is.

1 John 3:21

Dear friends, if we're reassured we're not in the wrong, we can have confidence before God.

1 John 3:23

This is what he commands: we should trust in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as he commanded us to do.

1 John 4:1

Dear friends, don't trust every spirit, but put the spirits to the test to find out whether they're from God, for there are many false prophets out there in the world.

1 John 4:11

Friends, if this is the way God loves us, we ought to love one another like this too.

1 John 4:21

This is the command he gave to us: those who love God love their brothers and sisters too.

1 John 4:7

Dear friends, let's go on loving one another, for love comes from God. All those who love are born of God and know God.