Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
and in this we know that we have known him, if his commands we may keep;
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
Holman Bible
This is how we are sure
International Standard Version
This is how we can be sure that we have come to know him: if we continually keep his commandments.
A Conservative Version
And by this we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
American Standard Version
And hereby we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
Amplified
And this is how we know [daily, by experience] that we have come to know Him [to understand Him and be more deeply acquainted with Him]: if we habitually keep [focused on His precepts and obey] His commandments (teachings).
An Understandable Version
And here is how we can be assured that we know Jesus [i.e., that we are saved]: [It is] by obeying what He commands us.
Anderson New Testament
And by this we know that we do know him, if we keep his commandments.
Bible in Basic English
And by this we may be certain that we have knowledge of him, if we keep his laws.
Common New Testament
Now by this we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
Daniel Mace New Testament
if we keep his commandments, that is a proof that we know him.
Darby Translation
And hereby we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
And by this, we know that we have known him, if we keep his commandments.
Godbey New Testament
And in this we know that we have known him, if we are keeping his commandments.
Goodspeed New Testament
This is how we can be sure that we know him??y obeying his commands.
John Wesley New Testament
And hereby we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
Julia Smith Translation
And in this we know that we have known him, if we should keep his commands.
King James 2000
And by this we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments.
Modern King James verseion
And by this we know that we have known Him, if we keep His commandments.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And hereby we are sure that we know him: if we keep his commandments.
Moffatt New Testament
This is how we may be sure we know him, by obeying his commands.
Montgomery New Testament
This is how we may know that we have come to know Him, by always keeping his commandments.
NET Bible
Now by this we know that we have come to know God: if we keep his commandments.
New Heart English Bible
This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.
Noyes New Testament
And hereby we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
Sawyer New Testament
And by this we know that we have known him, if we keep his commandments.
The Emphasized Bible
And, hereby, perceive we, that we understand him, - if, his commandments, we are keeping.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
And hereby we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
Twentieth Century New Testament
And by this we know that we have learned to know him--by our laying his commands to heart.
Webster
And by this we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
Weymouth New Testament
And by this we may know that we know Him--if we obey His commands.
Williams New Testament
By this we can be sure that we know Him -- if we practice obedience to His commands.
World English Bible
This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.
Worrell New Testament
And in this we know that we have known Him, if we keep His commandments.
Worsley New Testament
And by this we know that we have known Him, if we keep his commandments.
Themes
Christ » Words of characteristics of » Assurance
Evangelism » What preachers should do
Fellowship » Those that say they have fellowship with the lord, but are disobedient
Jesus Christ » Who is in jesus Christ
Knowledge » Who knows the lord
Love » Who the love of God is perfected in
Truth » Who the truth is not in
Topics
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 38 Translations in 1 John 2:3
Prayers for 1 John 2:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Commands
2 and he -- he is a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world, 3 and in this we know that we have known him, if his commands we may keep; 4 he who is saying, 'I have known him,' and his command is not keeping, a liar he is, and in him the truth is not;
Phrases
Names
Cross References
John 14:15
'If ye love me, my commands keep,
John 15:10
if my commandments ye may keep, ye shall remain in my love, according as I the commands of my Father have kept, and do remain in His love;
1 John 4:13
in this we know that in Him we do remain, and He in us, because of His Spirit He hath given us.
1 John 5:3
for this is the love of God, that His commands we may keep, and His commands are not burdensome;
Psalm 119:6
Then I am not ashamed In my looking unto all Thy commands.
Psalm 119:32
The way of Thy commands I run, For Thou dost enlarge my heart!
Isaiah 53:11
Of the labour of his soul he seeth -- he is satisfied, Through his knowledge give righteousness Doth the righteous one, My servant, to many, And their iniquities he doth bear.
Luke 6:46
'And why do ye call me, Lord, Lord, and do not what I say?
John 14:21-24
he who is having my commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving me, and he who is loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.'
John 15:14
ye are my friends, if ye may do whatever I command you;
1 Thessalonians 4:1-2
As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more,
Hebrews 5:9
and having been made perfect, he did become to all those obeying him a cause of salvation age-during,
1 John 2:4-6
he who is saying, 'I have known him,' and his command is not keeping, a liar he is, and in him the truth is not;
1 John 3:14
we -- we have known that we have passed out of the death to the life, because we love the brethren; he who is not loving the brother doth remain in the death.
1 John 3:19
and in this we know that of the truth we are, and before Him we shall assure our hearts,
1 John 3:22-24
and whatever we may ask, we receive from Him, because His commands we keep, and the things pleasing before Him we do,
1 John 5:19
we have known that of God we are, and the whole world in the evil doth lie;
Revelation 22:14
'Happy are those doing His commands that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of the life, and by the gates they may enter into the city;
John 17:3
and this is the life age-during, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and him whom Thou didst send -- Jesus Christ;
2 Corinthians 4:6
because it is God who said, Out of darkness light is to shine, who did shine in our hearts, for the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.