John 14:21

Genuine love for Jesus shows itself in obedience, and such love is met with the Father's love and Christ's self-revelation. Love and obedience belong together.

Cross-references · 39

• John 14:15If you love me, keep my commandments.
• 1 Jn 5:3For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
• 1 Jn 2:5But whoever keeps his word, God’s love has most certainly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him:
• 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.
• John 15:9–10Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.
• John 16:27for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.
• Deut 11:13It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
• Luke 11:28But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”
• Ezek 36:25–27I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
• 1 Jn 3:18–24My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.
• John 14:22–24Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?”
• 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,
• Deut 30:6–8Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live.
• John 15:14You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.
• Ps 119:4–6You have commanded your precepts, that we should fully obey them.
• 1 Jn 1:1–3That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life
• Rev 3:20Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.
• John 17:23I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you loved me.
• 2 Cor 4:6seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
• Rev 22:14Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.
• Jas 2:23–24and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness”; and he was called the friend of God.
• Rev 2:17He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.
• 2 Cor 5:14–15For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.
• Isa 62:2–5The nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory, and you will be called by a new name, which Yahweh‘s mouth will name.
• Ps 35:27Let them shout for joy and be glad, who favor my righteous cause. Yes, let them say continually, “Yahweh be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant!”
• 1 Jn 3:1See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.
• Zeph 3:17Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.
• Jer 31:33–34“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:
• 2 Th 2:16Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
• Jer 31:31“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
• Gen 26:3–5Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.
• 2 Cor 3:18But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.
• John 14:18I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.
• John 16:14He will glorify me, for he will take from what is mine, and will declare it to you.
• 2 Tim 4:17–18But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
• Acts 18:9–11The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, “Don’t be afraid, but speak and don’t be silent;
• 2 Tim 4:22The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.
• Acts 22:18and saw him saying to me, ‘Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not receive testimony concerning me from you.’
• 2 Cor 12:8Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me.

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