Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
This is how we know that we love God's children: we love God and keep 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
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.
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.
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
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Word Count of 38 Translations in 1 John 5:2
Prayers for 1 John 5:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Love Revealed
1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Messiah has been born from God, and everyone who loves the parent also loves the child. 2 This is how we know that we love God's children: we love God and keep his commandments. 3 For this demonstrates our love for God: We keep his commandments, and his commandments are not difficult,
Cross References
John 13:34-35
I'm giving you a new commandment"to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.
John 15:17
I am giving you these commandments so that you may love one another."
1 John 2:5
But whoever continually keeps his commandments is the kind of person in whom God's love has truly been perfected. This is how we can be sure that we are in union with God:
1 John 3:22-24
Whatever we request we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.
1 John 4:21
And this is the commandment that we have from him: the person who loves God must also love his brother.