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.