2 John 1:6 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised This is love: that we walk according to his commands. This is the command as you have heard it from the beginning: that you walk in love. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And what this love consists in is this: that we live and walk in accordance with and guided by His commandments (His orders, ordinances, precepts, teaching). This is the commandment, as you have heard from the beginning, that you continue to walk in love [guided by it and following it]. American Standard Version (1901) And this is love, that we should walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, even as ye heard from the beginning, that ye should walk in it. Common English Bible This is love: that we live according to his commands. This is the command that you heard from the beginning: live in love. Catholic Public Domain Version And this is love: that we walk according to his commandments. For this is the commandment that you have heard in the same way from the beginning, and in which you should walk. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And this is charity, that we walk according to his commandments. For this is the commandment, that, as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in the same: |
The one who has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. And the one who loves me will be loved by my Father. I also will love him and will reveal myself to him.’
Jesus answered, ‘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.
If you keep my commands you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.
You must follow the Lord your God and fear him. You must keep his commands and listen to him; you must worship him and remain faithful to him.
What you have heard from the beginning is to remain in you. If what you have heard from the beginning remains in you, then you will remain in the Son and in the Father.
But whoever keeps his word, truly in him the love of God is made complete. This is how we know we are in him:
Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command but an old command that you have had from the beginning. The old command is the word you have heard.
And if we know that he hears whatever we ask, we know that we have what we have asked of him.
For this is what love for God is: to keep his commands. And his commands are not a burden,
So now I ask you, dear lady #– #not as if I were writing you a new command, but one we have had from the beginning #– #that we love one another.