2 John 1:5 Cross References - Goodspeed

⁵ And now I beg you, my lady—not as though I were writing you any new command, but one which we have had from the beginning—let us love one another.

³⁴ I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you must love one another. ³⁵ By this they will all know that you are my disciples—by your love for one another."

¹² The command that I give you is to love one another just as I have loved you.

²² But what the Spirit produces is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

² and lead loving lives, just as Christ loved you and gave himself for you, as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

⁹ You do not need to have anyone write to you about brotherly love, for you have yourselves been taught by God to love one another,

¹ Your love for the brotherhood must continue.

²² Now that by obeying the truth you have purified your souls for sincere love of the brotherhood, you must love one another intensely and heartily, ²³ for you have been born anew from a germ not perishable, but imperishable, through the message of the living, everlasting God.

⁸ Above all keep your love for one another strong, because love covers up a host of sins.

⁷ piety with a spirit of brotherhood, and the spirit of brotherhood with love.

⁷ Dear friends, it is no new command that I am writing you, but an old one that you have had from the beginning. That old command is the same as the message you have heard. ⁸ Yet it is a new command that I am writing you; it is newly realized in him and in yourselves, for the darkness is passing and the true light is already shining.

¹¹ For the message you have heard from the beginning is this: We must love one another.

¹⁴ We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love is still in death. ¹⁵ Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer can have eternal life remain in his heart. ¹⁶ We know what love means from the fact that he laid down his life for us; so we also ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. ¹⁷ But if someone who is rich sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how can he have any love for God in his heart? ¹⁸ Dear children, let us love not with words or lips only but in reality and truth.

²³ His command is this—that we are to believe in his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he has commanded us to do.

⁷ Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God, and everyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. ⁸ Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. ⁹ God's love for us has been revealed in this way—that God has sent his only Son into the world, to let us have life through him. ¹⁰ The love consists not in our having loved God, but in his loving us and sending his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. ¹¹ Dear friends, if God has loved us so, we ought to love one another. ¹² No one has ever seen God; yet if we love one another, God keeps in union with us and love for him attains perfection in our hearts.

²⁰ If anyone says, "I love God," and yet hates his brother, he is a liar; for whoever does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.