2 John 1:6
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the very commandment you have heard from the beginning, that you must walk in love.”
Read 2 John 1:6 in the flow of 2 John1 for its full sense, then follow the cross-references below to the passages that echo it. Open 2 John1 to see the surrounding context.
“And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the very commandment you have heard from the beginning, that you must walk in love.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“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.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and this is the love, that we may walk according to His commands; this is the command, even as ye did hear from the beginning, that in it ye may walk,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 2 John 1:6 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- John 14:15If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
- John 14:21Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
- John 15:10If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.
- John 15:14You are My friends if you do what I command you.
- Romans 13:8Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
- Galatians 5:13For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.
- 1 John 2:5But if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him:
- 1 John 2:24As for you, let what you have heard from the beginning remain in you. If it does, you will also remain in the Son and in the Father.
- 1 John 5:3For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,
- 1 John 5:15And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we already possess what we have asked of Him.
- 2 John 1:5And now I urge you, dear lady—not as a new commandment to you, but one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another.
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