2 John 1:6

James Moffatt - New Testament

To live by his commands, that is what love means: and the command is, live in love as you have learned to do from the very beginning.

Cross References

1 John 5:3

(for love to God means keeping his commands). And his commands are not irksome,

1 John 2:24

Let that remain in you which you learned from the very beginning; if what you learned from the very beginning remains with you, then you will remain in the Son and in the Father.

1 John 2:5

but whoever obeys his word, in him love to God is really complete. This is how we may be sure we are in him:

John 15:10

If you keep my commands you will remain within my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and remain within 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

He who possesses my commands and obeys them is he who loves me, and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and appear to him."

1 John 5:15

and if we know he listens to whatever we ask, we know we obtain the requests we have made to him.

2 John 1:5

And now I entreat you, Lady — not as though I were writing you any new command, it is the command which we have had from the very beginning — let us love one another.

John 14:23

Jesus answered, "If anyone loves me he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up our abode with him.

1 John 2:7

Beloved, I am not writing you any new command, but an old command which you have had from the very beginning: the old command is the word you have heard.