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 you love me, keep my commandments.
• John 15:10If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.
• Deut 7:9Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,
• John 14:21–24One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”
• 1 Jn 2:3This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.
• 2 Jn 1:6This 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.
• Mic 6:8He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
• John 15:14You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.
• Rom 7:22For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,
• Matt 11:28–30“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
• Deut 10:12–13Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
• Dan 9:4I prayed to Yahweh my God, and made confession, and said, Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments,
• Rom 7:12Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
• Ps 119:47–48I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them.
• Heb 8:10“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
• Matt 12:46–50While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to him.
• Ps 19:7–11Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s testimony is sure, making wise the simple.
• Ps 119:127–128Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes, more than pure gold.
• Exod 20:6and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
• Deut 5:10and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
• Ps 119:45I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts.
• Ps 119:103–104How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!
• Prov 3:17Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.
• Ps 119:140Your promises have been thoroughly tested, and your servant loves them.

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