Overcoming the World
1 John 5:2
In 9 translations
- BSB
- By this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep His commandments.
- KJV
- By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
- WEB
- By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.
- ASV
- Hereby we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do his commandments.
- LSV
- In this we know that we love the children of God, when we may love God and may keep His commands;
- YLT
- in this we know that we love the children of God, when we may love God, and His commands may keep;
- DBY
- Hereby know we that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.ElohimElohim
- DRC
- In this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God, and keep his commandments.
- GNV
- In this we know that we loue the children of God, when we loue God, and keepe his commandements.
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- NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read ποιῶμεν (“we may perform”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read τηρῶμεν (“we may keep”).
SBLGNT apparatus (1)
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- SBLGNT: ποιῶμεν. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read ποιῶμεν; Robinson–Pierpont read τηρῶμεν.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- ἐν τούτῳ γινώσκομεν ὅτι ἀγαπῶμεν τὰ τέκνα τοῦ θεοῦ, ὅταν τὸν θεὸν ἀγαπῶμεν καὶ τὰς ἐντολὰς αὐτοῦ ποιῶμεν·
- RP2018
- Ἐν τούτῳ γινώσκομεν ὅτι ἀγαπῶμεν τὰ τέκνα τοῦ θεοῦ, ὅταν τὸν θεὸν ἀγαπῶμεν, καὶ τὰς ἐντολὰς αὐτοῦ τηρῶμεν.
- TR-Boyd
- Ἐν τούτῳ γινώσκομεν ὅτι ἀγαπῶμεν τὰ τέκνα τοῦ Θεοῦ, ὅταν τὸν Θεὸν ἀγαπῶμεν, καὶ τὰς ἐντολὰς αὐτοῦ τηρῶμεν.
- SCR1894
- εν τουτω γινωσκομεν οτι αγαπωμεν τα τεκνα του θεου οταν τον θεον αγαπωμεν και τας εντολας αυτου τηρωμεν
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- John 13:34–35A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.”
- 1 John 2:5But if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him:
- 1 John 3:22–24and 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…
- 1 John 4:21And we have this commandment from Him: Whoever loves God must love his brother as well.
- John 15:17This is My command to you: Love one another.
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