2 John 1:6

Good News Translation

This love I speak of means that we must live in obedience to God's commands. The command, as you have all heard from the beginning, is that you must all live in love.

Cross References

John 14:15

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

John 14:21

“Those who accept my commandments and obey them are the ones who love me. My Father will love those who love me; I too will love them and reveal myself to them.”

John 14:23

Jesus answered him, “Those who love me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and my Father and I will come to them and live with them.

John 15:10

If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love.

John 15:14

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

Deuteronomy 13:4

Follow the Lord and honor him; obey him and keep his commands; worship him and be faithful to him.

1 John 2:24

Be sure, then, to keep in your hearts the message you heard from the beginning. If you keep that message, then you will always live in union with the Son and the Father.

1 John 2:5

But if we obey his word, we are the ones whose love for God has really been made perfect. This is how we can be sure that we are in union with God:

1 John 2:7

My dear friends, this command I am writing you is not new; it is the old command, the one you have had from the very beginning. The old command is the message you have already heard.

1 John 5:15

He hears us whenever we ask him; and since we know this is true, we know also that he gives us what we ask from him.

1 John 5:3

For our love for God means that we obey his commands. And his commands are not too hard for us,

2 John 1:5

And so I ask you, dear Lady: let us all love one another. This is no new command I am writing you; it is the command which we have had from the beginning.