2 John 1:6 “And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is…”

2 John 1:6

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

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

And this is that loue, that we should walke after his commandements. This commandement is, that as ye haue heard from the beginning, ye should walke in it.

Darby Translation

And this is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, according as ye have heard from the beginning, that ye might walk in it.

Young's Literal Translation

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,

Bible in Basic English

And love is the keeping of his laws. This is the law which was given to you from the first, so that you might keep it.

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Cross references

“this is love”

1 John 5:3 John 15:10 John 14:15 John 15:14 John 14:21 1 John 5:15

1 John 5:3 · BSB

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

John 15:10 · BSB

If 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 14:15 · BSB

If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

John 15:14 · BSB

You are My friends if you do what I command you.

John 14:21 · BSB

Whoever 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.”

1 John 5:15 · BSB

And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we already possess what we have asked of Him.

“This is the”

1 John 2:24 2 John 1:5

1 John 2:24 · BSB

As 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.

2 John 1:5 · BSB

And 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.

Also

1 John 2:5

1 John 2:5 · BSB

But if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him:

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

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.

7For many deceivers have gone out into the world, refusing to confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist.

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