1 John 5:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

2 Kings 18:6

For he held fast to the Lord; he did not depart from following him but kept the commandments that the Lord had commanded Moses.

Psalm 119:140

Your promise is well tried, and your servant loves it.

Psalm 119:45

I shall walk at liberty, for I have sought your precepts.

Exodus 20:6

but showing steadfast love to the thousandth generation of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Proverbs 3:17

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

Daniel 9:4

I prayed to the Lord my God and made confession, saying, “Ah, Lord, great and awesome God, keeping covenant and steadfast love with those who love you and keep your commandments,

Micah 6:8

He has told you, O mortal, 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?

Matthew 23:4

They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on the shoulders of others, but they themselves are unwilling to lift a finger to move them.

John 14:15

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

John 15:10

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

John 15:14

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

Romans 7:12

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

Romans 7:22

For I delight in the law of God in my inmost self,

Deuteronomy 5:10

but showing steadfast love to the thousandth generation of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Deuteronomy 7:9

Know, therefore, that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who maintains covenant loyalty with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,

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 in their minds and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

1 John 2:3

Now by this we know that we have come to know him, if we obey his commandments.

2 John 1:6

And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment just as you have heard it from the beginning—you must walk in it.