1 John 2:3
By this we can be sure that we know him: if we keep his commandments.
Text-Critical English NT
In The King James Version
And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
In Context
Cross References
Luke 6:46“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I say?
John 14:21Whoever has my commandments and keeps them is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”
John 15:14You are my friends if you do whatever I command you.
2 Corinthians 4:6For God, who commanded light to shine out of darkness, has shone 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 →