2 John 1:6
Good News Translation
This love I speak of means that we must live in obedience to God's commands. The command, as you have all heard from the beginning, is that you must all live in love.

New Revised Standard Version
And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment just as you have heard it from the beginning—you must walk in it.

Contemporary English Version
Love means we do what God tells us. And from the beginning, he told you to love him.

New American Bible
For this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, as you heard from the beginning, in which you should walk.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And this is charity: That we walk according to his commandments. For this is the commandment that, as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in the same:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And this is charity: That we walk according to his commandments. For this is the commandment that, as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in the same:

this is love.

John 14:15,21 If you love me, keep my commandments. . . .

John 15:10,14 If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love: as I also have kept my Father's commandments and do abide in his love. . . .

Romans 13:8,9 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another. For he that loveth his neighbour hath fulfilled the law. . . .

Galatians 5:13,14 For you, brethren, have been called unto liberty. Only make not liberty an occasion to the flesh: but by charity of the spirit serve one another. . . .

1 John 5:3,15 For this is the charity of God: That we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not heavy. . . .

This is the.

2 John 1:5 And now I beseech thee, lady, not as writing a new commandment to thee, but that which we have had from the beginning, that we love one another.

1 John 2:24 As for you, let that which you have heard from the beginning abide in you. If that abide in you, which you have heard from the beginning, you also shall abide in the Son and in the Father.

Context
Walking in the Truth
5And now I beseech thee, lady, not as writing a new commandment to thee, but that which we have had from the beginning, that we love one another. 6And this is charity: That we walk according to his commandments. For this is the commandment that, as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in the same: 7For many seducers are gone out into the world who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a seducer and an antichrist.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 13:4
Follow the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and hear his voice: him you shall serve, and to him you shall cleave.

John 14:15
If you love me, keep my commandments.

John 14:21
He that hath my commandments and keepeth them; he it is that loveth me. And he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father: and I will love him and will manifest myself to him.

John 14:23
Jesus answered and said to him: If any one love me, he will keep my word. And my Father will love him and we will come to him and will make our abode with him.

1 John 2:5
But he that keepeth his word, in him in very deed the charity of God is perfected. And by this we know that we are in him.

1 John 2:7
Dearly beloved, I write not a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you have heard.

1 John 2:24
As for you, let that which you have heard from the beginning abide in you. If that abide in you, which you have heard from the beginning, you also shall abide in the Son and in the Father.

1 John 5:3
For this is the charity of God: That we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not heavy.

2 John 1:5
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