1 John 2:3
By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 119:32I run in the path of Your commandments, for You will enlarge my heart.
Luke 6:46Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ but do not do what I say?
John 14:21Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
John 15:14You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.
2 Corinthians 4:6For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 5:9And having been made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him
Matthew Henry on 1 John 2:2-3
Christ the Propitiation. ( a. d. 80.) 1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: 2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. These verses relate to the concluding subject of the foregoing chapter, in which the apostle proceeds upon the supposition of the real Christian's sin. And here he gives them both dissuasion and support. 1. Dissuasion.… Read the whole commentary →