Parallel Verses
Daniel Mace New Testament
now love consists in the practice of the divine precepts. this is the precept you have originally receiv'd, as the rule of your conduct.
New American Standard Bible
And
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
And this is love:
International Standard Version
And this is what demonstrates love: that we live according to God's commandments. Just as you have heard from the beginning what he commanded, you must live by it.
A Conservative Version
And this is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, just as ye heard from the beginning, that ye should walk in it.
American Standard Version
And this is love, that we should walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, even as ye heard from the beginning, that ye should walk in it.
Amplified
And this is love: that we walk in accordance with His commandments and are guided continually by His precepts. This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, that you should [always] walk in love.
An Understandable Version
And this is [the true meaning of] love: That we should live in obedience to God's commandments. And this is the commandment, just as you heard from the beginning, that you should live in it [i.e., live a life of love].
Anderson New Testament
And this is -love, that we walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, as you have heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.
Bible in Basic English
And love is the keeping of his laws. This is the law which was given to you from the first, so that you might keep it.
Common New Testament
And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, that you should walk in love.
Darby Translation
And this is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, according as ye have heard from the beginning, that ye might walk in it.
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
And this is the love that we walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you have heard from the beginning, that you may walk in it;
Godbey New Testament
And this is the divine love, that we may walk about according to his commandments; this is the commandment, That, as you heard from the beginning, that you may walk about in it.
Goodspeed New Testament
Love means this, that we be guided by his commands. The command, as you have heard from the beginning, is to be guided by love.
John Wesley New Testament
And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment as ye have heard from the beginning, that ye may walk in it.
Julia Smith Translation
And this is love, that we walk about according to his commands. This is the command, That as ye heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.
King James 2000
And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in it.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And this is love: that we walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it.
Modern King James verseion
And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And this is the love, that we should walk after his commandments. This commandment is, that as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.
Moffatt New Testament
To live by his commands, that is what love means: and the command is, live in love as you have learned to do from the very beginning.
Montgomery New Testament
And this is love, that we should lead our lives according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should pass your life in love.
NET Bible
(Now this is love: that we walk according to his commandments.) This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning; thus you should walk in it.
New Heart English Bible
This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.
Noyes New Testament
And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, as ye have heard from the beginning, that ye should walk in it.
Sawyer New Testament
And this is love, that we should walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
And this is love, that we should walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, as ye have heard from the beginning, That ye should walk in it.
Twentieth Century New Testament
And this is love--to live in obedience to the Father's commands. This is the Command as you learned from the first, to live in a spirit of love.
Webster
And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, that as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.
Weymouth New Testament
The love of which I am speaking consists in our living in obedience to God's commands. God's command is that you should live in obedience to what you all heard from the very beginning.
Williams New Testament
Now love means this, that we keep on living in accordance with His commands. The command is this, that we continue to live in love.
World English Bible
This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.
Worrell New Testament
And this is love, that we walk according to His commandment. This is the commandment, even as ye heard from the beginning, that ye should walk in it.
Worsley New Testament
And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, as ye heard from the beginning, that ye should walk in it.
Youngs Literal Translation
and this is the love, that we may walk according to His commands; this is the command, even as ye did hear from the beginning, that in it ye may walk,
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Word Count of 37 Translations in 2 John 1:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Truth And Deception
5 and now, my lady, I beg our love may be mutual, since what I write, is no new prescription, but what was originally enjoin'd. 6 now love consists in the practice of the divine precepts. this is the precept you have originally receiv'd, as the rule of your conduct. 7 For there are many impostors started up in the world, who will not own that Jesus Christ was incarnate. such a one is an impostor and an anti-christ.
Cross References
1 John 2:24
adhere therefore to what ye have learnt from the beginning. if you adhere to what ye have heard from the beginning, you will still persist to own both the son and the father.
1 John 5:3
for our love of God consists in the observation of his precepts: precepts that are far from being grievous.
John 14:15
if ye love me, keep my commandments.
John 15:10
your love to me will be in keeping my commandments: even as I love my father by keeping his commandments.
John 15:14
you will be my friends, if you do what I have commanded you.
1 John 2:5
but he that observes his precepts, loves God with a true and perfect love: 'tis by this we know that we are truly christians.
John 14:21
he that hath received my commandments, and keeps them, he it is that loves me: and he that loves me, shall be beloved by my father, and I will love him, and shew my self unto him.
Romans 13:8-9
Owe no man any thing, but mutual love: for he that
Galatians 5:13-14
for, brethren, you have been called to liberty. only abuse not this freedom as a pretext to vice, but in offices of love be as servants one to another.
1 John 5:15
and since we are sure that he hears all our prayers, we are sure that the petitions we presented to him, will be answered.
2 John 1:5
and now, my lady, I beg our love may be mutual, since what I write, is no new prescription, but what was originally enjoin'd.