1 John 2:7

New English Translation

Dear friends, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have already heard.

Cross References

Leviticus 19:18

You must not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the children of your people, but you must love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 19:34

The foreigner who resides with you must be to you like a native citizen among you; so you must love him as yourself, because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

Matthew 5:43

“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor’ and ‘hate your enemy.’

John 13:34

“I give you a new commandment – to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

Acts 17:19

So they took Paul and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are proclaiming?

Deuteronomy 6:5

You must love the Lord your God with your whole mind, your whole being, and all your strength.

Hebrews 6:9

But in your case, dear friends, even though we speak like this, we are convinced of better things relating to salvation.

1 John 2:24

As for you, what you have heard from the beginning must remain in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.

1 John 3:11

For this is the gospel message that you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another,

1 John 3:2

Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever it is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is.

1 John 3:21

Dear friends, if our conscience does not condemn us, we have confidence in the presence of God,

1 John 3:23

Now this is his commandment: that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he gave us the commandment.

1 John 4:1

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to determine if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

1 John 4:11

Dear friends, if God so loved us, then we also ought to love one another.

1 John 4:21

And the commandment we have from him is this: that the one who loves God should love his fellow Christian too.

1 John 4:7

Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.