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 ye love me, keep my commandments.
• John 15:10If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.
• 1 Jn 5:3For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
• Luke 6:46And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?
• 1 Jn 4:13Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
• John 15:14Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
• Heb 5:9And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
• 1 Jn 3:22–24And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
• Ps 119:32I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.
• John 14:21–24He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
• 1 Jn 2:4–6He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
• 1 Jn 3:19And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
• John 17:3And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
• 1 Th 4:1–2Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
• 1 Jn 3:14We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
• 1 Jn 5:19And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
• 2 Cor 4:6For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
• Ps 119:6Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.
• Rev 22:14Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
• Isa 53:11He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.

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