1 John 3:4

3:4 Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; indeed, sin is lawlessness.

1 John 5:3

5:3 For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments do not weigh us down,

1 John 2:7

2:7 Dear friends, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have already heard.

1 John 2:3

Keeping God’s Commandments

2:3 Now by this we know that we have come to know God: if we keep his commandments.

1 John 3:22

3:22 and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing to him.

1 John 5:2

5:2 By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and obey his commandments.

1 John 2:4

2:4 The one who says “I have come to know God” and yet does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in such a person.

1 John 3:23

3:23 Now this is his commandment: that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he gave us the commandment.

1 John 2:1

2:1 (My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin.) But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous One,

1 John 2:8

2:8 On the other hand, I am writing a new commandment to you which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.

1 John 3:8

3:8 The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was revealed: to destroy the works of the devil.

1 John 3:24

3:24 And the person who keeps his commandments resides in God, and God in him. Now by this we know that God resides in us: by the Spirit he has given us.