1 John 2:3
It is by keeping God’s commands that we can be sure we know him.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
In Context
2He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but the sins of the whole world.
Cross References
Psalms 119:32I will run in the way of your commandments, for you give me room of heart.
Luke 6:46Why do you call me ‘Master! Master!’ and yet fail to do what I tell you?
John 14:21It is the person who has my commands and lays them to heart who loves me; and the person who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them, and will reveal myself to them.”
John 15:14And you are my friends, if you do what I command you.
2 Corinthians 4:6Indeed, the same God who said ‘Out of darkness light will shine,’ has shone in on our hearts, so that we should bring out into the light the knowledge of the glory of God, seen in the face of Christ.
Hebrews 5:9and, being made perfect, he became to all those who obey him the source of eternal salvation,
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 →