1 John 2:7

God's Word

Dear friends, it’s not as though I’m writing to give you a new commandment. Rather, I’m giving you an old commandment that you’ve had from the beginning. It’s the old commandment you’ve already heard.

Cross References

Leviticus 19:18

Never get revenge. Never hold a grudge against any of your people. Instead, love your neighbor as you love yourself. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 19:34

Foreigners living among you will be like your own people. Love them as you love yourself, because you were foreigners living in Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

Matthew 5:43

“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.’

John 13:34

“I’m giving you a new commandment: Love each other in the same way that I have loved you.

Acts 17:19

Then they brought Paul to the city court, the Areopagus, and asked, “Could you tell us these new ideas that you’re teaching?

Deuteronomy 6:5

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

Hebrews 6:9

Dear friends, even though we say these things, we are still convinced that better things are in store for you and that they will save you.

1 John 2:24

Make sure that the message you heard from the beginning lives in you. If that message lives in you, you will also live in the Son and in the Father.

1 John 3:11

The message that you have heard from the beginning is to love each other.

1 John 3:2

Dear friends, now we are God’s children. What we will be isn’t completely clear yet. We do know that when Christ appears we will be like him because we will see him as he is.

1 John 3:21

Dear friends, if our conscience doesn’t condemn us, we can boldly look to God

1 John 3:23

This is his commandment: to believe in his Son, the one named Jesus Christ, and to love each other as he commanded us.

1 John 4:1

Dear friends, don’t believe all people who say that they have the Spirit. Instead, test them. See whether the spirit they have is from God, because there are many false prophets in the world.

1 John 4:11

Dear friends, if this is the way God loved us, we must also love each other.

1 John 4:21

Christ has given us this commandment: The person who loves God must also love other believers.

1 John 4:7

Dear friends, we must love each other because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born from God and knows God.