1 John 2:7

Beloved, I am not writing to you a new commandment, but an old one, which you have had from the beginning. This commandment is the message you have heard.

Cross References (14)

  • 1 John 3:11 (17)

    This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another.

  • Leviticus 19:18 (15)

    Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.

  • Mark 12:29–34 (15)

    Jesus replied, “This is the most important: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One.

  • 2 John 1:5–6 (14)

    And now I urge you, dear lady—not as a new commandment to you, but one we have had from the beginning—that we love one a

  • Romans 13:8–10 (10)

    Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

  • Galatians 5:13–14 (10)

    For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve on

  • Matthew 22:37–40 (9)

    Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’

  • Leviticus 19:34 (8)

    You must treat the foreigner living among you as native-born and love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the la

  • 1 John 3:23 (8)

    And this is His commandment: that we should believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and we should love one another

  • Deuteronomy 6:5 (8)

    And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

  • 1 John 2:24 (6)

    As for you, let what you have heard from the beginning remain in you. If it does, you will also remain in the Son and in

  • James 2:8–12 (6)

    If you really fulfill the royal law stated in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.

  • Matthew 5:43 (5)

    You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor’ and ‘Hate your enemy.’

  • Acts 17:19 (2)

    So they took Paul and brought him to the Areopagus, where they asked him, “May we know what this new teaching is that yo