1 John 2:3

We can know that we truly know God by whether we keep his commandments. Obedience is the evidence of genuine relationship with him.

Cross-references · 20

• John 14:15If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
• 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.
• 1 Jn 5:3For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,
• Luke 6:46Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ but not do what I say?
• 1 Jn 4:13By this we know that we remain in Him, and He in us: He has given us of His Spirit.
• John 15:14You are My friends if you do what I command you.
• Heb 5:9And having been made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him
• 1 Jn 3:22–24and we will receive from Him whatever we ask, because we keep His commandments and do what is pleasing in His sight.
• Ps 119:32I run in the path of Your commandments, for You will enlarge my heart.
• John 14:21–24Whoever 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 Jn 2:4–6If anyone says, “I know Him,” but does not keep His commandments, he is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
• 1 Jn 3:19And by this we will know that we belong to the truth, and will assure our hearts in His presence:
• John 17:3Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.
• 1 Th 4:1–2Finally, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus to live in a way that is pleasing to God, just as you have received from us. This is how you already live, so you should do so all the more.
• 1 Jn 3:14We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.
• 1 Jn 5:19We know that we are of God, and that the whole world is under the power of the evil one.
• 2 Cor 4:6For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
• Ps 119:6Then I would not be ashamed when I consider all Your commandments.
• Rev 22:14Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates.
• Isa 53:11After the anguish of His soul, He will see the light of life and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant will justify many, and He will bear their iniquities.

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