Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
And love is the keeping of his laws. This is the law which was given to you from the first, so that you might keep it.
New American Standard Bible
And
King James Version
And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.
Holman Bible
And this is love:
International Standard Version
And this is what demonstrates love: that we live according to God's commandments. Just as you have heard from the beginning what he commanded, you must live by it.
A Conservative Version
And this is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, just as ye heard from the beginning, that ye should walk in it.
American Standard Version
And this is love, that we should walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, even as ye heard from the beginning, that ye should walk in it.
Amplified
And this is love: that we walk in accordance with His commandments and are guided continually by His precepts. This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, that you should [always] walk in love.
An Understandable Version
And this is [the true meaning of] love: That we should live in obedience to God's commandments. And this is the commandment, just as you heard from the beginning, that you should live in it [i.e., live a life of love].
Anderson New Testament
And this is -love, that we walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, as you have heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.
Common New Testament
And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, that you should walk in love.
Daniel Mace New Testament
now love consists in the practice of the divine precepts. this is the precept you have originally receiv'd, as the rule of your conduct.
Darby Translation
And this is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, according as ye have heard from the beginning, that ye might walk in it.
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
And this is the love that we walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you have heard from the beginning, that you may walk in it;
Godbey New Testament
And this is the divine love, that we may walk about according to his commandments; this is the commandment, That, as you heard from the beginning, that you may walk about in it.
Goodspeed New Testament
Love means this, that we be guided by his commands. The command, as you have heard from the beginning, is to be guided by love.
John Wesley New Testament
And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment as ye have heard from the beginning, that ye may walk in it.
Julia Smith Translation
And this is love, that we walk about according to his commands. This is the command, That as ye heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.
King James 2000
And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in it.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And this is love: that we walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it.
Modern King James verseion
And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And this is the love, that we should walk after his commandments. This commandment is, that as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.
Moffatt New Testament
To live by his commands, that is what love means: and the command is, live in love as you have learned to do from the very beginning.
Montgomery New Testament
And this is love, that we should lead our lives according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should pass your life in love.
NET Bible
(Now this is love: that we walk according to his commandments.) This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning; thus you should walk in it.
New Heart English Bible
This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.
Noyes New Testament
And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, as ye have heard from the beginning, that ye should walk in it.
Sawyer New Testament
And this is love, that we should walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
And this is love, that we should walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, as ye have heard from the beginning, That ye should walk in it.
Twentieth Century New Testament
And this is love--to live in obedience to the Father's commands. This is the Command as you learned from the first, to live in a spirit of love.
Webster
And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, that as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.
Weymouth New Testament
The love of which I am speaking consists in our living in obedience to God's commands. God's command is that you should live in obedience to what you all heard from the very beginning.
Williams New Testament
Now love means this, that we keep on living in accordance with His commands. The command is this, that we continue to live in love.
World English Bible
This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.
Worrell New Testament
And this is love, that we walk according to His commandment. This is the commandment, even as ye heard from the beginning, that ye should walk in it.
Worsley New Testament
And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, as ye heard from the beginning, that ye should walk in it.
Youngs Literal Translation
and this is the love, that we may walk according to His commands; this is the command, even as ye did hear from the beginning, that in it ye may walk,
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Word Count of 37 Translations in 2 John 1:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Truth And Deception
5 And now, my sister, I make a request to you, not sending you a new law, but the law which we had from the first, that we have love for one another. 6 And love is the keeping of his laws. This is the law which was given to you from the first, so that you might keep it. 7 Because a number of false teachers have gone out into the world, who do not give witness that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. Such a one is a false teacher and Antichrist.
Cross References
1 John 2:24
But as for you, keep in your hearts the things which were made clear to you from the first. If you keep these things in your hearts you will be kept in the Father and the Son.
1 John 5:3
For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.
John 14:15
If you have love for me, you will keep my laws.
John 15:10
If you keep my laws, you will be ever in my love, even as I have kept my Father's laws, and am ever in his love.
John 15:14
You are my friends, if you do what I give you orders to do.
1 John 2:5
But in every man who keeps his word, the love of God is made complete. By this we may be certain that we are in him:
John 14:21
He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him.
Romans 13:8-9
Be in debt for nothing, but to have love for one another: for he who has love for his neighbour has kept all the law.
Galatians 5:13-14
Because you, brothers, were marked out to be free; only do not make use of your free condition to give the flesh its chance, but through love be servants one to another.
1 John 5:15
And if we are certain that he gives ear to all our requests, we are equally certain that we will get our requests.
2 John 1:5
And now, my sister, I make a request to you, not sending you a new law, but the law which we had from the first, that we have love for one another.