2 John 1:6

God's Word

Love means that we live by doing what he commands. We were commanded to live in love, and you have heard this from the beginning.

Cross References

John 14:15

“If you love me, you will obey my commandments.

John 14:21

Whoever knows and obeys my commandments is the person who loves me. Those who love me will have my Father’s love, and I, too, will love them and show myself to them.”

John 14:23

Jesus answered him, “Those who love me will do what I say. My Father will love them, and we will go to them and make our home with them.

John 15:10

If you obey my commandments, you will live in my love. I have obeyed my Father’s commandments, and in that way I live in his love.

John 15:14

You are my friends if you obey my commandments.

Deuteronomy 13:4

Worship the Lord your God, fear him, obey his commands, listen to what he says, serve him, and be loyal to him.

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 2:5

But whoever obeys what Christ says is the kind of person in whom God’s love is perfected. That’s how we know we are in Christ.

1 John 2:7

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.

1 John 5:15

We know that he listens to our requests. So we know that we already have what we ask him for.

1 John 5:3

To love God means that we obey his commandments. Obeying his commandments isn’t difficult

2 John 1:5

Dear lady, I’m now requesting that we continue to love each other. It’s not as though I’m writing to give you a new commandment. Rather, from the beginning we were commanded to love each other.