1 John 2:3

The Passion Translation

Here’s how we can be sure that we’ve truly come to know God: if we keep his commands.

Cross References

John 14:15

“Loving me empowers you to obey my commands.

John 15:10

If you keep my commands, you will live in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands, for I continually live nourished and empowered by his love.

1 John 5:3

True love for God means obeying his commands, and his commands don’t weigh us down as heavy burdens.

Luke 6:46

“What good does it do for you to say I am your Lord and Master if you don’t put into practice what I teach you?

John 15:14

“You show that you are my intimate friends when you obey all that I command you.

1 John 4:13

And he has given us his Spirit within us so that we can have the assurance that he lives in us and that we live in him.

Hebrews 5:9

And after being proven perfect in this way he has now become the source of eternal salvation to all those who listen to him and obey.

Psalm 119:32

I will run after you with delight in my heart, for you will make me obedient to your instructions.

1 John 3:19

We know that the truth lives within us because we demonstrate love in action, which will reassure our hearts in his presence.

John 17:3

Eternal life means to know and experience you as the only true God, and to know and experience Jesus Christ, as the Son whom you have sent.

1 John 5:19

We know that we are God’s children and that the whole world lies under the misery and influence of the Evil One.

1 John 3:14

Yet we can be assured that we have been translated from spiritual death into spiritual life because we love the family of believers. A loveless life remains spiritually dead.

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God, who said, “Let brilliant light shine out of darkness,” is the one who has cascaded his light into us—the brilliant dawning light of the glorious knowledge of God as we gaze into the face of Jesus Christ.

Revelation 22:14

Wonderfully blessed are those who wash their robes white so they can access the Tree of Life and enter the city of bliss by its open gates.

Isaiah 53:11

After the great anguish of his soul, he will see light and be fully satisfied. By knowing him, the righteous one, my servant will make many to be righteous, because he, their sin-bearer, carried away their sins.

Psalm 119:6

Then I’ll never be ashamed, for I take strength from all your commandments.

1 John 2:13

I remind you, fathers and mothers: you have a relationship with the One who has existed from the beginning. And I remind you, young people: you have defeated the Evil One.

1 John 3:6

But the one who continues sinning hasn’t seen him with discernment or known him by intimate experience.

1 John 4:7

Those who are loved by God, let his love continually pour from you to one another, because God is love. Everyone who loves is fathered by God and experiences an intimate knowledge of him.

1 John 5:2

This is how we can be sure that we love the children of God: by having a passionate love for God and by obedience to his commands.

Revelation 12:17

Then the dragon became enraged at the woman and went off to make war against the remnant of her offspring who follow the commands of God and have the testimony of Jesus.

Revelation 14:12

This is a call for the endurance and faithfulness of the holy believers—those who follow God’s commands and cling to the faith of Jesus.