1 John 5:2

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Hereby, perceive we, that we love the children of God, as soon as, God, we love, and, his commandments, we are doing.

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.

Geneva Bible (1587)
In this we know that we loue the children of God, when we loue God, and keepe his commandements.

Christian Standard Bible®
This is how we know that we love God’s children: when we love God and obey his commands.

Hebrew Names Version
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his mitzvot.

Darby Translation
Hereby know we that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.

Easy-to-Read Version
How do we know that we love God's children? We know because we love God and we obey his commands.

Amplified Bible
By this we know [without any doubt] that we love the children of God: [expressing that love] when we love God and obey His commandments.

American Standard Version
Hereby we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do his commandments.

Berean Standard Bible
By this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep His commandments.

Contemporary English Version
If we love and obey God, we know that we will love his children.

Complete Jewish Bible
Here is how we know that we love God's children: when we love God, we also do what he commands.

International Standard Version
This is how we know that we love God's children: we love God and keep his commandments.

Etheridge Translation
And by this we know that we love the children of Aloha, when we love Aloha, and work his commandments.

Murdock Translation
And by this we know, that we love the children of God, when we love God, and follow his commandments.

King James Version (1611)
By this wee know that wee loue the children of God, when we loue God and keepe his commandements.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
By this we knowe that we loue the chyldren of God, when we loue God, and kepe his commaundementes.

English Revised Version
Hereby we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and do his commandments.

King James Version
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.

Lexham English Bible
By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and keep his commandments.

Literal Translation
By this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep His commandments.

New American Standard Bible
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and follow His commandments.

New Century Version
This is how we know we love God's children: when we love God and obey his commands.

New English Translation
By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and obey his commandments.

New King James Version
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep His commandments.

New Living Translation
We know we love God's children if we love God and obey his commandments.

New Revised Standard
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.

Douay-Rheims Bible
In this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep his commandments.

George Lamsa Translation
And by this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.

Good News Translation
This is how we know that we love God's children: it is by loving God and obeying his commands.

World English Bible
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Hereby we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.

Weymouth's New Testament
The fact that we love God Himself, and obey His commands, is a proof that we love God's children.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
In this thing we knowen, that we louen the children of God, whanne we louen God, and don his maundementis.

Webster's Bible Translation
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.

Revised Standard Version
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
In this we knowe yt we love the children of god whe we love god and kepe his comaudementes.

Update Bible Version
Hereby we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do his commandments.

Young's Literal Translation
in this we know that we love the children of God, when we may love God, and His commands may keep;

Bible in Basic English
In this way, we are certain that we have love for the children of God, when we have love for God and keep his laws.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
By this we knowe that we loue Gods children, whan we loue God, and kepe his commaundementes.

Mace New Testament (1729)
by this we may know that we love the children of God, if we love God, and keep his commandments.

New Life Bible
This is the way we know we love God's children. It is when we love God and obey His Word.

Simplified Cowboy Version
We can know we love God's kids if we love God and do what he says to do.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and observe His commandments.

Contextual Overview

¹ Whosoever believeth that, Jesus, is the Christ, of God, hath been born: and, whosoever loveth him that begat, loveth him that hath been begotten of him. ² Hereby, perceive we, that we love the children of God, as soon as, God, we love, and, his commandments, we are doing. ³ For, this is the love of God - that, his commandments, we be keeping, and, his commandments, are not burdensome; ⁴ Because, whatsoever hath been born of God, overcometh the world; and, this, is the victory that hath overcome the world - our faith. ⁵ And who is he that overcometh the world, save he that believeth that, Jesus, is the Son of God?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 John 3:22-24, 1 John 4:21, John 13:34, John 13:35, John 15:17

Reciprocal: Leviticus 11:9 - General Deuteronomy 5:10 - love me Deuteronomy 10:12 - love Deuteronomy 11:22 - to love Deuteronomy 14:1 - the children Deuteronomy 26:16 - keep Deuteronomy 30:16 - to love Joshua 22:5 - love Judges 5:31 - them that 1 Kings 3:3 - loved Psalms 97:10 - Ye that Psalms 116:1 - love Ezekiel 18:5 - if Daniel 9:4 - the great Matthew 22:37 - General Matthew 25:40 - Inasmuch John 8:42 - If John 14:15 - General Romans 8:28 - them Romans 12:10 - kindly 1 Corinthians 7:19 - but 1 Corinthians 8:3 - love Philemon 1:5 - toward the Lord 1 Peter 1:22 - unto 1 John 3:10 - the children of God 1 John 3:14 - We know Revelation 12:17 - which

Cross-References

Genesis 1:27
And God created the man in his own image, In the image of God, created he him, - Male and female, created he, them.

Genesis 2:15
So Yahweh God took the man, - and placed him in the garden of Eden, to till it and to keeps it.

Genesis 2:23
And the man said, This, one, now, is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh! This, one shall be called Woman, for, out of a man, hath this one been taken.

Malachi 2:15
Now was it not, One, who made you who had, the residue of the spirit? What, then, of that One? He was seeking a godly seed. Therefore should ye take heed to your spirit, and, with the wife of thy youth, do not thou deal treacherously.

Matthew 19:4
And, he, answering, said - Did ye never read - He who created at the beginning, Male and female, made them, -

Mark 10:6
But, from the beginning of creation, male and female, made he them;

Acts 17:26
he made also, of one, every nation of men to dwell upon all the face of the earth, - marking out fitting opportunities, and the bounds of their dwelling place,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

By this we know that we are the children God,.... The Ethiopic version reads, "by this know that we love God"; which, in connection with what follows, makes a tautology, and is a proving "idem per idem": whereas the apostle's view is to show when love to the saints is right; and that is,

when we love God, and keep his commandments: love to the brethren may arise from such a cause, as may show that it is not brotherly love, or of a spiritual kind; it may arise from natural relation, or civil friendship, or from a benefit or favour received from them, and from some natural external excellency seen in them; and a man may do acts of love and kindness to the brethren, from what may be called good nature in himself, or with sinister views; but true love to the brethren springs from love to God: such who love the saints aright, and by which they may know they do so, they love them because they themselves love God, and in obedience to his command; they love them because they belong to God, and are the objects of his love; because his grace is wrought in them, and his image stamped upon them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

By this we know that we love the children of God ... - This is repeating the same truth in another form. “As it is universally true that if we love Him who has begotten us, we shall also love His children, or our Christian brethren, so it is true also that if we love His children it will follow that we love Him.” In other places, the apostle says that we may know that we love God if we love those who bear His image, 1 John 3:14. He here says, that there is another way of determining what we are. We may have undoubted evidence that we love God, and from that, as the basis of an argument, we may infer that we have true love to His children. Of the fact that we may have evidence that we love God, apart from that which we derive from our love to His children, there can be no doubt. We may be conscious of it; we may find pleasure in meditating on His perfections; we may feel sure that we are moved to obey Him by true attachment to Him, as a child may in reference to a father. But, it may be asked, how can it be inferred from this that we truly love His children? Is it not easier to ascertain this of itself than it is to determine whether we love God? Compare 1 John 4:20. To this it may be answered, that we may love Christians from many motives: we may love them as personal friends; we may love them because they belong to our church, or sect, or party; we may love them because they are naturally amiable: but the apostle says here, that when we are conscious that an attachment does exist toward Christians, we may ascertain that it is genuine, or that it does not proceed from any improper motive, by the fact that we love God. We shall then love Him as His children, whatever other grounds of affection there may be toward them.

And keep his commandments - See the notes at John 14:15.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 John 5:2. By this we know that we love the children of God — Our love of God's followers is a proof that we love God. Our love to God is the cause why we love his children, and our keeping the commandments of God is the proof that we love him.