2 John 1:6

The Text-Critical English New Testament

Now this is love, that we walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, just as you have heard it from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

Cross References

John 14:15

“If you love me, keep my commandments.

John 14:21

Whoever has my commandments and keeps them is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”

John 14:23

Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

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 whatever I command you.

1 John 2:24

Therefore let what you have heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you have heard from the beginning abides in you, then you will abide in the Son and in the Father.

1 John 2:5

But whoever keeps his word, truly in him the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in him:

1 John 2:7

Brothers, I am not writing you a new commandment, but an old commandment, which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the message you have heard from the beginning.

1 John 5:15

And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have what we have asked of him.

1 John 5:3

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

2 John 1:5

And now I ask yoʋ, dear lady—not as writing yoʋ a new commandment, but one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another.