1 John 2:5

WEB

⁵But God’s love has most certainly been perfected in whoever keeps his word. This is how we know that we are in him:

KJV

⁵But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.

BSB

⁵But if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him:

FBV

⁵But those who follow God's word have his love totally fill their minds. This is how we know that we live in him.

Extra References

John 14:23

²³Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

John 14:21

²¹One 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.”

1 John 4:12-13

¹²No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

¹³By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

Luke 11:28

²⁸But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

1 John 3:24

²⁴He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

Psalms 119:2

²Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.

1 John 5:2

²By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.

Revelation 14:12

¹²Here is the perseverance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.”

1 John 2:3-4

³This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments. ⁴One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.

Ezekiel 36:27

²⁷I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them.