2 John 1:6

New American Bible - revised edition

For this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, as you heard from the beginning, in which you should walk.

Cross References

John 14:15

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

John 14:21

Whoever has my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me. And whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him.”

John 14:23

Jesus answered and said to him, “Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him.

John 15:10

If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.

John 15:14

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

Deuteronomy 13:4

do not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer; for the Lord, your God, is testing you to know whether you really love the Lord, your God, with all your heart and soul.

1 John 2:24

Let what you heard from the beginning remain in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, then you will remain in the Son and in the Father.

1 John 2:5

But whoever keeps his word, the love of God is truly perfected in him. This is the way we may know that we are in union with him:

1 John 2:7

Beloved, I am writing no new commandment to you but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard.

1 John 5:15

And if we know that he hears us in regard to whatever we ask, we know that what we have asked him for is ours.

1 John 5:3

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

2 John 1:5

But now, Lady, I ask you, not as though I were writing a new commandment but the one we have had from the beginning: let us love one another.