Parallel Verses
Amplified
By this we know [without any doubt] that we love the children of God: [expressing that love] when we love God and obey His commandments.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
Holman Bible
This is how we know that we love God’s children when we love God and obey
International Standard Version
This is how we know that we love God's children: we love God and keep his commandments.
A Conservative Version
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.
American Standard Version
Hereby we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do his commandments.
An Understandable Version
This is [one] way we know that we love God's [spiritually reborn] children: [It is] when we love God and obey what He commands us to do.
Anderson New Testament
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
Bible in Basic English
In this way, we are certain that we have love for the children of God, when we have love for God and keep his laws.
Common New Testament
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.
Daniel Mace New Testament
by this we may know that we love the children of God, if we love God, and keep his commandments.
Darby Translation
Hereby know we that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
Godbey New Testament
In this we know that we love the children of God with divine love, when we love God with divine love and keep his commandments.
Goodspeed New Testament
This is how we can be sure that we love the children of God: it is by loving God and obeying his commands.
John Wesley New Testament
Hereby we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
Julia Smith Translation
In this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commands.
King James 2000
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
Lexham Expanded Bible
By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and keep his commandments.
Modern King James verseion
By this we know that we love the children of God, whenever we love God and keep His commandments.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
In this we know that we love the sons of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
Moffatt New Testament
This is how we are sure that we love God's children, by loving God and obeying his commands
Montgomery New Testament
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.
NET Bible
By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and obey his commandments.
New Heart English Bible
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do his commandments.
Noyes New Testament
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and do his commandments.
Sawyer New Testament
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.
The Emphasized Bible
Hereby, perceive we, that we love the children of God, as soon as, God, we love, and, his commandments, we are doing.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Hereby we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
Twentieth Century New Testament
By this we know that we love God's Children--when we love God and carry out his commands.
Webster
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
Weymouth New Testament
The fact that we love God Himself, and obey His commands, is a proof that we love God's children.
Williams New Testament
This is how we can be sure that we love the children of God, by continuing to love God and to obey His commands.
World English Bible
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.
Worrell New Testament
In this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and do His commandments.
Worsley New Testament
and in this we know that we love the children of God, since we love God and keep his commandments.
Youngs Literal Translation
in this we know that we love the children of God, when we may love God, and His commands may keep;
Interlinear
References
Hastings
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Word Count of 38 Translations in 1 John 5:2
Images 1 John 5:2
Prayers for 1 John 5:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Love Revealed
1
Everyone who believes [with a deep, abiding trust in the fact] that Jesus is the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed) is born of God [that is, reborn from above—spiritually transformed, renewed, and set apart for His purpose], and everyone who loves the Father also loves
Cross References
John 13:34-35
John 15:17
1 John 2:5
But whoever habitually keeps His word and obeys His precepts [and treasures His message in its entirety], in him the love of God has truly been perfected [it is completed and has reached maturity]. By this we know [for certain] that we are in Him:
1 John 3:22-24
and we receive from Him whatever we ask because we [carefully and consistently] keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight [habitually seeking to follow His plan for us].
1 John 4:21
And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God should also [unselfishly] love his brother and seek the best for him.