1 John 5:3

Loving God means keeping his commandments, and his commands are not burdensome. True love for God expresses itself in glad obedience.

Cross-references · 24

• 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.
• Deut 7:9Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
• 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 2:3And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
• 2 Jn 1:6And 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.
• Mic 6:8He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
• John 15:14Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
• Rom 7:22For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
• Matt 11:28–30Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
• Deut 10:12–13And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
• Dan 9:4And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;
• Rom 7:12Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
• Ps 119:47–48And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
• Heb 8:10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
• Matt 12:46–50While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him.
• Ps 19:7–11The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
• Ps 119:127–128Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.
• Exod 20:6And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
• Deut 5:10And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
• Ps 119:45And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.
• Ps 119:103–104How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
• Prov 3:17Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
• Ps 119:140Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.

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