1 John 3:23

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.

His commandment

Love

General references

1 John 5:2

Bible References

His commandment

The Lord your God will give you a prophet from among your people, like me; you will give ear to him;

For fear that he may be angry, causing destruction to come on you, because he is quickly moved to wrath. Happy are all those who put their faith in him.

And a cloud came over them; and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, give ear to him.

Jesus, answering, said to them, This is to do the work of God: to have faith in him whom God has sent.

Let not your heart be troubled: have faith in God and have faith in me.

And this is eternal life: to have knowledge of you, the only true God, and of him whom you have sent, even Jesus Christ.

And they said, Have faith in the Lord Jesus, and you and your family will have salvation.

It is a true saying, in which all may put their faith, that Christ Jesus came into the world to give salvation to sinners, of whom I am the chief:

Love

Because this is the word which was given to you from the first, that we are to have love for one another;

Again, I give you a new law, which is true in him and in you; for the night is near its end and the true light is even now shining out.

And this is the word which we have from him, that he who has love for God is to have the same love for his brother.

And a second like it is this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.

I give you a new law: Have love one for another; even as I have had love for you, so are you to have love one for another.

This is the law I give you: Have love one for another, even as I have love for you.

And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.

But about loving the brothers, there is no need for me to say anything to you in this letter: for you have the teaching of God that love for one another is right and necessary;

And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:

And most of all be warm in your love for one another; because in love there is forgiveness for sins without number:

General references

You are to keep all my rules and my decisions and do them: I am the Lord.

See, I have put before you today, life and good, and death and evil;

But he said, More happy are they who give hearing to the word of God and keep it.

This is the law I give you: Have love one for another, even as I have love for you.

Go on loving your brothers in the faith.

My loved ones, if God had such love for us, it is right for us to have love for one another.

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.