1 John 5:3

Modern English Version

For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,

Cross References

John 14:15

“If you love Me, keep My commandments.

John 15:10

If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, even as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.

2 John 1:6

And this is love: that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, that as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in it.

1 John 2:3

By this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments.

Deuteronomy 7:9

Know therefore that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and mercy with them who love Him and keep His commandments to a thousand generations,

Micah 6:8

He has told you, O man, what is good— and what does the Lord require of you, but to do justice and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Romans 7:22

For I delight in the law of God according to the inner man,

John 15:14

You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.

Daniel 9:4

And I prayed to the Lord my God, and made my confession, and said, “Alas, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping His covenant and mercy to those who love Him, and to those who keep His commandments.

Hebrews 8:10

This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their minds and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

Romans 7:12

So then, the law is holy and the commandment is holy and just and good.

Proverbs 3:17

Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

Psalm 119:140

Your word is very pure; therefore Your servant loves it.

Psalm 119:45

And I will walk at liberty, for I seek Your precepts.

Deuteronomy 5:10

but showing mercy to thousands of them who love Me and keep My commandments.

Exodus 20:6

and showing mercy to thousands of them who love Me and keep My commandments.

Matthew 23:4

They fasten heavy loads that are hard to carry and lay them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves will not move them with their finger.

2 Kings 18:6

He clung to the Lord. He did not depart from following Him, but kept His commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses.