1 John 2:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.

I write

1 John 3:11

Acts 17:19

2 John 1:5

But

General references

John 15:12

Bible References

I write

for this is the doctrine that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

One day they conducted him to the Areopagus, and said to him, may we know what this new doctrine is, which you publish?

and now, my lady, I beg our love may be mutual, since what I write, is no new prescription, but what was originally enjoin'd.

But

You have heard that it hath been said, "you shall love your neighbour, and hate your enemy:"

Jesus said to him, "thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind."

Jesus answer'd him, the first of all the commandments is thus deliver'd, "hear, o Israel, the lord our God is the only lord.

Owe no man any thing, but mutual love: for he that

for, brethren, you have been called to liberty. only abuse not this freedom as a pretext to vice, but in offices of love be as servants one to another.

If, agreeably to the scriptures, you observe that royal law, "thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self," you do well.

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this is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you.