2 John 1:6

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

And this is love--to live in obedience to the Father's commands. This is the Command as you learned from the first, to live in a spirit of love.

Cross References

John 14:15

If you love me, you will lay my commands to heart,

John 14:21

It is he who has my commands and lays them to heart that loves me; and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him."

John 14:23

"Whoever loves me," Jesus answered," will lay my Message to heart; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him.

John 15:10

If you lay my commands to heart, you will remain in my love; just as I have laid the Father's commands to heart and remain in his love.

John 15:14

And you are my friends, if you do what I command you.

1 John 2:24

As for you, let what you were told at the first be always in your thoughts. If, then, what you were told at the first is always in your thoughts, you yourselves will maintain your union both with the Son and with the Father.

1 John 2:5

but, whenever a man lays his Message to heart, in that man the love of God has indeed reached its perfection. By this we know that we are in union with God--

1 John 2:7

Dear friends, it is no new command that I am writing to you, but an old command, which you have had from the first. That old command is the Message to which you listened.

1 John 5:15

And if we realize that he listens to us--whatever we ask--we realize that we have what we have asked from him.

1 John 5:3

For to love God is to lay his commands to heart; and his commands are not burdensome,

2 John 1:5

And now, I pray you, Lady--not as though I were writing a new command for you; no, it is the command which we had from the first--Let us love one another.