1 John 2:3 Cross References - WNT

³ And by this we may know that we know Him--if we obey His commands.

⁴⁶ "And why do you all call me 'Master, Master' and yet not do what I tell you?

¹⁵ "If you love me, you will obey my commandments.

²¹ He who has my commandments and obeys them--he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will clearly reveal myself to him." ²² Judas (not the Iscariot) asked, "Master, how is it that you will reveal yourself clearly to us and not to the world?" ²³ "If any one loves me," replied Jesus, "he will obey my teaching; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. ²⁴ He who has no love for me does not obey my teaching; and yet the teaching to which you are listening is not mine, but is the teaching of the Father who sent me.

¹⁰ If you obey my commands, you will continue in my love, as I have obeyed my Father's commands and continue in His love.

¹⁴ You are my friends, if you do what I command you.

³ And in this consists the Life of the Ages--in knowing Thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent.

⁶ For God who said, "Out of darkness let light shine," is He who has shone in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God's glory, which is radiant on the face of Christ.

¹ Moreover, brethren, as you learnt from our lips the lives which you ought to live, and do live, so as to please God, we beg and exhort you in the name of the Lord Jesus to live them more and more truly. ² For you know the commands which we laid upon you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.

⁹ and so, having been made perfect, He became to all who obey Him the source and giver of eternal salvation.

⁴ He who professes to know Him, and yet does not obey His commands, is a liar, and the truth has no place in his heart. ⁵ But whoever obeys His Message, in him love for God has in very deed reached perfection. By this we can know that we are in Him. ⁶ The man who professes to be continuing in Him is himself also bound to live as He lived.

¹⁴ As for us, we know that we have already passed out of death into Life--because we love our brother men. He who is destitute of love continues dead.

¹⁹ And in this way we shall come to know that we are loyal to the truth, and shall satisfy our consciences in His presence

²² and whatever we ask for we obtain from Him, because we obey His commands and do the things which are pleasing in His sight. ²³ And this is His command--that we are to believe in His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as He has commanded us to do. ²⁴ The man who obeys His commands continues in union with God, and God continues in union with him; and through His Spirit whom He has given us we can know that He continues in union with us.

¹³ We can know that we are continuing in union with Him and that He is continuing in union with us, by the fact that He has given us a portion of His Spirit.

³ Love for God means obedience to His commands; and His commands are not irksome.

¹⁹ We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the Evil one.

¹⁴ Blessed are those who wash their robes clean, that they may have a right to the Tree of Life, and may go through the gates into the city.