Cross references

1 John 2:3

By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments.

1 John 2:3 BSB

1 John 2:3 has 20 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 17 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to John 14:15 (25 votes) and John 15:10 (22 votes). 30 other verses point back to it. It links with 21 other books, from 1 Chronicles 22 to Revelation 22.

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Which verses does 1 John 2:3 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. John 14:1525 votes

    If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

  2. John 15:1022 votes

    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.

  3. 1 John 5:317 votes

    For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,

  4. Luke 6:4616 votes

    Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ but do not do what I say?

  5. 1 John 4:1313 votes

    By this we know that we remain in Him, and He in us: He has given us of His Spirit.

  6. John 15:1412 votes

    You are My friends if you do what I command you.

  7. Hebrews 5:911 votes

    And having been made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him

  8. and we will receive from Him whatever we ask, because we keep His commandments and do what is pleasing in His sight. And this is His commandment: that we should believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and we should love one another just as He commanded us. …

  9. Psalm 119:3210 votes

    I run in the path of Your commandments, for You will enlarge my heart.

  10. 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.” Judas (not Iscariot) asked Him, “Lord, why are You going to reveal Yourself to us and not to the world?” …

  11. If anyone says, “I know Him,” but does not keep His commandments, he is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 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: …

  12. John 17:35 votes

    Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.

  13. We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.

Which verses point to 1 John 2:3?

The 10 strongest of 30.