1 John 2:3

1 John 2:3
This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.

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1 Samuel 15:22
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.

Jeremiah 7:22
For I didn’t speak to your fathers or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices;

Hosea 6:6
For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Matthew 5:19
Therefore, whoever shall break one of these least commandments and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

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Psalms 103:18
to those who keep his covenant, to those who remember to obey his precepts.

Psalms 119:4
You have commanded your precepts, that we should fully obey them.

Proverbs 3:1
My son, don’t forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,

Ecclesiastes 8:5
Whoever keeps the commandment shall not come to harm, and his wise heart will know the time and procedure.

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Proverbs 2:5
then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.

Isaiah 53:11
After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.

Jeremiah 24:7
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.

Matthew 7:23
Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

Matthew 11:27
All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.

Luke 6:46
“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say?

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Romans 1:28
Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

1 Corinthians 15:34
Wake up righteously and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

2 Corinthians 4:3
Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who are dying,

2 Corinthians 4:4
in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

2 Corinthians 4:5
For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake,

Colossians 3:10
and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

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1 John 1:6
If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie and don’t tell the truth.

1 John 1:7
But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

1 John 2:7
Brothers, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning.

1 John 2:9
He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness even until now.

1 John 2:11
But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

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1 John 3:9
Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him, and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.

1 John 5:4
For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

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Luke 2:51
And he went down with them and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

John 8:51
Most certainly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death.”

John 14:16
I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever:

Romans 8:16
The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;

Revelation 3:8
“I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name.

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