2 John 1:6

Translations

Modern

And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the very commandment you have heard from the beginning, that you must walk in love.

Traditional

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.

Literal

And this is love, that we should walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, just as you heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it.

Latin

Et hæc est caritas, ut ambulemus secundum mandata ejus. Hoc est enim mandatum, ut quemadmodum audistis ab initio, in eo ambuletis.

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English

And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the very commandment you have heard from the beginning, that you must walk in love.

Notes

2 John 1:4–11

John now applies the truth and love that he mentioned in the introduction (1:1–3) to the situation of those he is writing to. Living in truth and love means maintaining unity or fellowship with true Christians (1:4–6). It also involves recognizing false teachers and choosing not to listen to or support them (1:7–11).

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1 John 5:3
For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,
1 John 2:24
As for you, let what you have heard from the beginning remain in you. If it does, you will also remain in the Son and in the Father.
John 15:10
If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.
John 14:15
If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
Galatians 5:13–14
For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.
1 John 2:5
But if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him:
John 15:14
You are My friends if you do what I command you.
Romans 13:8–9
Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
John 14:21
Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
2 John 1:5
And now I urge you, dear lady—not as a new commandment to you, but one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another.
1 John 5:15
And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we already possess what we have asked of Him.

2 John 1:6

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