2 John 1:6

And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, as you have heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

And 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.

In Context

5And now I beseech you, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment to you, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

7For many deceivers have entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ came in the flesh: this is the deceiver and the antichrist.

Read all of 2 John 1

Cross References

John 14:21He that has my commandments and keeps them, he it is that loves me; and he that loves me shall be loved by my Father; and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

John 15:14You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.

Galatians 5:13For you have been called to freedom, brethren: only use not your freedom as an occasion for the flesh, but become servants to one another, through love.

1 John 2:24Let that, therefore, abide in you which you have heard from the beginning. If that abide in you which you have heard from the beginning, you also shall abide in the Son and in the Father.

1 John 5:15And if we know that he hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.

Matthew Henry on 2 John 1:6-7

Christian Love. ( a. d. 90.) 5 And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another. 6 And 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. We come now more into the design and substance of the epistle; and here we have, I. The apostle's request: Now, I beseech thee, lady. Considering what it is that he entreats, the way of… Read the whole commentary →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study 2 John 1:6