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3And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

1 John 2:3 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • John 14:15

    If ye love me, keep my commandments.

  • John 15:10

    If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

  • 1 John 5:3

    For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

  • Luke 6:46

    And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

  • 1 John 4:13

    Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 3-6)

These verses may seem to relate to the 1 John 1:7; between which and these verses there occurred an incidental discourse concerning the believer’s duty and relief in case of sin, occasioned by the mention of one of the believer’s privileges—his being cleansed from sin by the Mediator’s blood. In that verse the apostle asserts the beneficial consequence of walking in the light: “We have then fellow…

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