“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.”
— WEB
2 John 1:6
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“And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.”
— KJV
“And this is love, that we should walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, even as ye heard from the beginning, that ye should walk in it.”
— ASV
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Commentary
"Love is the fulfilling of the law" (Rom 13:10), and the fulfilling of the law is the sure test of love. This is the commandment--Greek, "The commandment is this," namely, love, in which all God's other commandments are summed up.
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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