1 John 2:7

The English Standar Version

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

Cross References

Leviticus 19:18

You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD.

Leviticus 19:34

You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

Matthew 5:43

"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.'

John 13:34

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

Acts 17:19

And they took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?

Deuteronomy 6:5

You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

Hebrews 6:9

Though we speak in this way, yet in your case, beloved, we feel sure of better things -- things that belong to salvation.

1 John 2:24

Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too will abide in the Son and in the Father.

1 John 3:11

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

1 John 3:2

Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears[1] we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.

1 John 3:21

Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God;

1 John 3:23

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

1 John 4:1

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

1 John 4:11

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

1 John 4:21

And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.

1 John 4:7

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.