1 John 5:3
Greek Text— 1 John 5:3For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
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What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”
“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment.
He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”
being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.
Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.
But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”
We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.
But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
But God’s love has most certainly been perfected in whoever keeps his word. This is how we know that we are in him:
Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.
Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.
Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.
Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.
I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.
Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.
I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh. They will be my people, and I will be their God; for they will return to me with their whole heart.
If you love me, keep my commandments.
For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.
For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.
He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
This is my covenant with them, when I will take away their sins.”
that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,
Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;
He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it.
having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
“You shall have no other gods before me.
and he said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above, or on earth beneath; who keeps covenant and loving kindness with your servants, who walk before you with all their heart;
I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”
To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.
My tent also will be with them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
and I will bring them, and they will dwell within Jerusalem; and they will be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.”
and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.
God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.
If we are faithless, he remains faithful; for he can’t deny himself.”
let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.
Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.
Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,
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.
Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always.
but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.
Let my meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in Yahweh.
How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.
This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.
Simon answered him, “Master, we worked all night, and took nothing; but at your word I will let down the net.”
For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.
Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.
If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.
Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.
You have commanded your precepts, that we should fully obey them.
remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.
This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.
Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them.
Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But one to whom little is forgiven, loves little.”
For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,
“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,
She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.”
“Your father made our yoke difficult. Now therefore make the hard service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you.”
For he joined with Yahweh. He didn’t depart from following him, but kept his commandments, which Yahweh commanded Moses.
“Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make the grievous service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you.”
that they might set their hope in God, and not forget God’s deeds, but keep his commandments,
Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.
He who keeps the commandment keeps his soul, but he who is contemptuous in his ways shall die.
I prayed to Yahweh my God, and made confession, and said, “Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments,
He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.
Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts.
Your promises have been thoroughly tested, and your servant loves them.