1 John 2:5
3 By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments.
4 If anyone says, “I know Him,” but does not keep His commandments, he is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
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:
6 Whoever claims to abide in Him must walk as Jesus walked.
7 Beloved, I am not writing to you a new commandment, but an old one, which you have had from the beginning. This commandment is the message you have heard.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- 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:
- KJV
- But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
- WEB
- But God’s love has most certainly been perfected in whoever keeps his word. This is how we know that we are in him:
- ASV
- but whoso keepeth his word, in him verily hath the love of God been perfected. Hereby we know that we are in him:
- DARBY
- but whoever keeps his word, in him verily the love of God is perfected. Hereby we know that we are in him.
- BLB
- But whoever may keep His word, truly in him the love of God has been perfected. In this we know that we are in Him:
- ÅB
- men den som holder hans ord, i ham er sannelig kjærligheten til Gud blitt fullkommen. På dette kjenner vi at vi er i ham.
- OTB
- men den som følger Hans ord, i ham er Guds kjærlighet virkelig blitt fullendt. Ved dette forstår vi at vi er i Ham:
- B1930
- men den som holder hans ord, i ham er sannelig kjærligheten til Gud blitt fullkommen. På dette kjenner vi at vi er i ham.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
John 14:23
Jesus replied, “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.
Read in contextJohn 14:21
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.”
Read in context1 John 4:12–13
No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.
Read in contextLuke 11:28
But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
Read in context1 John 3:24
Whoever keeps His commandments remains in God, and God in him. And by this we know that He remains in us: by the Spirit He has given us.
Read in contextPsalms 119:2
Blessed are those who keep His testimonies and seek Him with all their heart.
Read in context1 John 5:2
By this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep His commandments.
Read in contextRevelation 14:12
Here is a call for the perseverance of the saints who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
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