1 John 2:7
My friends, I'm not writing to you giving some new commandment, but an old commandment you've had from the beginning. This old commandment is one you have already heard.
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6Whoever claims to be living in him should behave like Jesus.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:18Don't look for revenge or hold a grudge against anybody, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.
Deuteronomy 6:5You shall love the Lord your God with all your mind and with all your being and with all your strength.
Matthew 22:37Jesus told them, “‘Love the Lord your God in all you think, in all you feel, and in all you do.’
Acts 17:19So they took him to the Areopagus, and asked him, “Please tell us about this new teaching that you're promoting.
Galatians 5:13You, my brothers and sisters, were called to freedom! Just don't use your freedom as an excuse to indulge your sinful human nature—instead serve one another in love.
1 John 2:24As for you, make sure what you heard from the beginning continues to live in you. If what you heard from the beginning lives in you, you will also live in the Son and in the Father.
Matthew Henry on 1 John 2:4-7
The Believer's Duty. ( a. d. 80.) 3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. 4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. 6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked. These verses may seem to relate to the seventh verse of the former chapter , between which and these verses there… Read the whole commentary →