Love & Obedience
Explore questions about how love and obedience to God's commandments are connected in Scripture.
"If you love me, keep my commandments."
John 14:15
"He who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him."
John 14:21
"If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and remain in his love."
John 15:10
"By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments. For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous."
1 John 5:2-3
"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."
2 John 1:6
"Jesus said to him, 'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. A second likewise is this, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.'"
Matthew 22:37-40
"Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one. You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might."
Deuteronomy 6:4-5