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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
1 John 5:3
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For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.
For this is the loue of God, that we keepe his commandements: and his commandements are not burdenous.
For this is what love for God is: to keep his commands. And his commands are not a burden,
For this is the love of God, that we keep his mitzvot. His mitzvot are not grievous.
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments; and his commandments are not grievous.
Loving God means obeying his commands. And God's commands are not too hard for us,
For the [true] love of God is this: that we habitually keep His commandments and remain focused on His precepts. And His commandments and His precepts are not difficult [to obey].
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,
We show our love for God by obeying his commandments, and they are not hard to follow.
For loving God means obeying his commands. Moreover, his commands are not burdensome,
For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments; and his commandments are not difficult,Micah 6:8; Matthew 11:30; John 14:15,21, 23; 15:10; 2 John 1:1:6;">[xr]
For this is the love of Aloha, that we keep his commandments; and his commandments are not heavy.
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not burdensome.
For this is the loue of God, that we keepe his commandements, and his commandements are not grieuous.
For this is the loue of God, that we kepe his commaundementes, and his commaundementes are not greeuous.
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome,
For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not heavy.
For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome.
Loving God means obeying his commands. And God's commands are not too hard for us,
For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments do not weigh us down,
For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome.
Loving God means keeping his commandments, and his commandments are not burdensome.
For the love of God is this, that we obey his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome,
For this is the charity of God: That we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not heavy.
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: And his commandments are not difficult.
For our love for God means that we obey his commands. And his commands are not too hard for us,
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments; and his commandments are not grievous.
Love for God means obedience to His commands; and His commands are not irksome.
For this is the charite of God, that we kepe hise maundementis; and his maundementis ben not heuy.
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments; and his commandments are not grievous.
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.
This is ye love of god yt we kepe his comaundemetes and his comaundementes are not greveous
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
for this is the love of God, that His commands we may keep, and His commands are not burdensome;
For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.
For this is the loue of God, that we kepe his commaundementes, and his commaundemetes are not greuous.
for our love of God consists in the observation of his precepts: precepts that are far from being grievous.
Loving God means to obey His Word, and His Word is not hard to obey.
Of course we love God. And if we love him, we are going to obey him just like we would any great father. What he asks us to do is not too hard.
For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
this: Exodus 20:6, Deuteronomy 5:10, Deuteronomy 7:9, Deuteronomy 10:12, Deuteronomy 10:13, Daniel 9:4, Matthew 12:47-50, John 14:15, John 14:21-24, John 15:10, John 15:14, 2 John 1:6
and: Psalms 19:7-11, Psalms 119:45, Psalms 119:47, Psalms 119:48, Psalms 119:103, Psalms 119:104, Psalms 119:127, Psalms 119:128, Psalms 119:140, Proverbs 3:17, Micah 6:8, Matthew 11:28-30, Romans 7:12, Romans 7:22, Hebrews 8:10
Reciprocal: Genesis 6:22 - General Deuteronomy 6:5 - thou shalt Deuteronomy 11:22 - to love Deuteronomy 26:16 - keep Deuteronomy 30:6 - to love the Lord Deuteronomy 30:16 - to love Joshua 22:5 - love Judges 5:31 - them that Judges 16:15 - when thine 1 Kings 3:3 - loved 1 Kings 12:4 - our yoke 2 Kings 18:6 - kept 2 Chronicles 10:4 - Thy father Psalms 1:2 - But his Psalms 78:7 - keep Psalms 97:10 - Ye that Psalms 116:1 - love Psalms 119:17 - I may live Psalms 119:35 - therein Proverbs 19:16 - keepeth the Matthew 7:24 - whosoever Matthew 11:30 - my yoke Luke 7:47 - she John 12:26 - serve Romans 8:28 - them 1 Corinthians 7:19 - but 1 Corinthians 8:3 - love 1 Thessalonians 1:3 - and labour 1 John 2:3 - if we Revelation 22:14 - Blessed
Cross-References
And Adam again knew his wife, and she bare a son, and called his name Seth, - For God hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, because Cain slew him!
Male and female, created he them, - and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day they were created.
And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his likeness after his image, - and called his name Seth:
and all the days of Kenan were, nine hundred and ten years, - and he died.
and Mahalalel lived after he begat Jared, eight hundred and thirty years, - and begat sons and daughters;
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one!
How then shall, a mortal, be just with GOD? Or how shall he be pure who is born of a woman?
Lo! in iniquity, was I brought forth, And, in sin, did my mother conceive me.
And answering, the messenger said unto her - The Holy Spirit, shall come upon thee, and, the power of the Most High, shall overshadow thee; wherefore, even that which is to be born, Holy, shall be called, Son of God.
That which hath been born of the flesh, is, flesh, and, that which hath been born of the spirit, is, spirit.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments,.... Keeping of the commandments of God is an evidence of love to God; this shows that love is not in word and tongue, in profession only, but in deed and in truth; and that such persons have a sense of the love of God upon their souls, under the influence of which they act; and such shall have, and may expect to have, greater manifestations of the love of God unto them:
and his commandments are not grievous; heavy, burdensome, and disagreeable; by which are meant, not so much the precepts of the moral law, which through the weakness of the flesh are hard to be kept, and cannot be perfectly fulfilled; though believers indeed, being freed from the rigorous exaction, curse, and condemnation of the law, delight in it after the inward man, and serve it cheerfully with their spirit; and still less the commands of the ceremonial law, which were now abolished, and were grievous to be borne; but rather those of faith in Christ, and love to the saints, 1 John 3:23; or it may be the ordinances of the Gospel, baptism, and the Lord's supper, with others, which though disagreeable to unregenerate persons, who do not care to be under the yoke of Christ, however easy and light it is, yet are not heavy and burdensome to regenerate ones; and especially when they have the love of God shed abroad in them, the presence of God with them, communion with Jesus Christ, and a supply of grace and strength from him; then are these ways ways of pleasantness, and paths of peace, and the tabernacles of the Lord are amiable and lovely.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments - This constitutes true love; this furnishes the evidence of it.
And his commandments are not grievous - Greek, “heavy” - βαρεῖαι bareiai; that is, difficult to be borne as a burden. See Matthew 11:30. The meaning is, that his laws are not unreasonable; the duties which he requires are not beyond our ability; his government is not oppressive. It is easy to obey God when the heart is right; and those who endeavor in sincerity to keep his commandments do not complain that they are hard. All complaints of this kind come from those who are not disposed to keep his commandments. Indeed, they object that his laws are unreasonable; that they impose improper restraints; that they are not easily complied with; and that the divine government is one of severity and injustice. But no such complaints come from true Christians. They find his service easier than the service of sin, and the laws of God more mild and easy to be complied with than were those of fashion and honor, which they once endeavored to obey. The service of God is freedom; the service of the world is bondage. No man ever yet heard a true Christian say that the laws of God, requiring him to lead a holy life, were stern and “grievous.” But who has not felt this in regard to the inexorable laws of sin? What votary of the world would not say this if he spoke his real sentiments? Compare the notes at John 8:32.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 1 John 5:3. For this is the love of God — This the love of God necessarily produces. It is vain to pretend love to God while we live in opposition to his will.
His commandments — To love him with all our heart, and our neighbour as ourselves, are not grievous-are not burdensome; for no man is burdened with the duties which his own love imposes. The old proverb explains the meaning of the apostle's words, Love feels no loads. Love to God brings strength from God; through his love and his strength, all his commandments are not only easy and light, but pleasant and delightful.
On the love of God, as being the foundation of all religious worship, there is a good saying in Sohar Exod., fol. 23, col. 91: "Rabbi Jesa said, how necessary is it that a man should love the holy blessed God! For he can bring no other worship to God than love; and whoever loves him, and worships him from a principle of love, him the holy blessed God calls his beloved."
