1 John 2:5

New Century Version

But if someone obeys God’s teaching, then in that person God’s love has truly reached its goal. This is how we can be sure we are living in God:

Cross References

Psalm 105:45

This was so they would keep his orders and obey his teachings. Praise the Lord!

Psalm 106:3

Happy are those who do right, who do what is fair at all times.

Psalm 119:146

I call to you. Save me so I can obey your rules.

Psalm 119:2

Happy are those who keep his rules, who try to obey him with their whole heart.

Psalm 119:4

Lord, you gave your orders to be obeyed completely.

Proverbs 28:7

Children who obey what they have been taught are wise, but friends of troublemakers disgrace their parents.

Proverbs 8:32

“Now, my children, listen to me, because those who follow my ways are happy.

Ecclesiastes 8:5

Whoever obeys the king’s command will be safe. A wise person does the right thing at the right time.

Ezekiel 36:27

I will put my Spirit inside you and help you live by my rules and carefully obey my laws.

Luke 11:28

But Jesus said, “No, blessed are those who hear the teaching of God and obey it.”

John 14:21

Those who know my commands and obey them are the ones who love me, and my Father will love those who love me. I will love them and will show myself to them.”

John 14:23

Jesus answered, “If people love me, they will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.

John 15:5

“I am the vine, and you are the branches. If any remain in me and I remain in them, they produce much fruit. But without me they can do nothing.

John 6:56

Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood live in me, and I live in them.

Romans 8:1

So now, those who are in Christ Jesus are not judged guilty.

1 Corinthians 1:30

Because of God you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God. In Christ we are put right with God, and have been made holy, and have been set free from sin.

2 Corinthians 5:17

If anyone belongs to Christ, there is a new creation. The old things have gone; everything is made new!

2 Corinthians 5:21

Christ had no sin, but God made him become sin so that in Christ we could become right with God.

James 2:22

So you see that Abraham’s faith and the things he did worked together. His faith was made perfect by what he did.

1 John 3:24

The people who obey God’s commands live in God, and God lives in them. We know that God lives in us because of the Spirit God gave us.

1 John 4:17

This is how love is made perfect in us: that we can be without fear on the day God judges us, because in this world we are like him.

1 John 4:18

Where God’s love is, there is no fear, because God’s perfect love drives out fear. It is punishment that makes a person fear, so love is not made perfect in the person who fears.

1 John 5:2

This is how we know we love God’s children: when we love God and obey his commands.

1 John 5:20

We also know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we can know the True One. And our lives are in the True One and in his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the true God and the eternal life.

2 John 1:6

And love means living the way God commanded us to live. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is this: Live a life of love.

Revelation 12:17

Then the dragon was very angry at the woman, and he went off to make war against all her other children—those who obey God’s commands and who have the message Jesus taught.

Revelation 14:12

This means God’s holy people must be patient. They must obey God’s commands and keep their faith in Jesus.