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Selected Verse: 2 John 1:6 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 2Jo 1:6 |
King James |
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. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
"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. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
And this is love, that we walk after his commandments - This is the proper expression or evidence of love to God. See the notes at Joh 14:15, Joh 14:21.
This is the commandment - That is, this is his great and special commandment; the one by which his disciples are to be especially characterized, and by which they are to be distinguished in the world. See the notes at Joh 13:34. |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
Love (ἡ ἀγάπη)
The love just mentioned in the verb we love.
That (ἵνα)
See on Joh 15:13.
After His commandments (κατὰ τὰς ἐντολὰς αὐτοῦ)
For walk, with κατά after, according to, see Mar 7:5; Rom 8:4; Rom 14:15; Co1 3:3; Co2 10:2. Very often with ἐν in. See Joh 8:12; Joh 11:9, Joh 11:10; Co2 4:2; Jo1 1:7, Jo1 1:10. Both constructions are found Co2 10:2, Co2 10:3.
From the beginning (ἀπ' ἀρχῆς)
See on Joh 1:1.
In it (ἐν αὐτῇ)
In love: not the commandment. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| And this is the proof of true love, universal obedience built on the love of God. This - Love. Is the great commandment which ye have heard from the beginning - Of our preaching. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| And this is love - That is, our love is shown and proved by our walking according to the commandments of God; for love is the principle of obedience. |
10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
2 But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
10 But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.
9 Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.
12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
2 But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
15 But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.
4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
5 Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?
13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.