1 John 2:3
This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
In Context
2And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
Cross References
Psalms 119:32I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free.
Luke 6:46“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say?
John 14:21One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”
John 15:14You are my friends if you do whatever I command you.
2 Corinthians 4:6seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 5:9Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author 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 →