1 John 5:3

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
American Standard Version

Treated in 6 passages across the library.

  1. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    XII. Gracious and holy affections have their exercise and fruit in Christian practice cites 1 John 5:3

    …ommandments;" that is (as we must understand it), this is the proper evidence of love. So 1 John 5:3, "This is the love of God, that we keep his commandments." So the Apostle James, speaking…

  2. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    Obedience cites 1 John 5: 3

    …nsideration. Consider, God’s commands are not grievous: he commands nothing unreasonable. 1 John 5: 3. It is easier to obey the commands of God than sin. The commands of sin are burdensome — …

  3. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    Discourse I cites 1 John 5:3

    …each, “This is the love of God,” the sure mark thereof, “that we keep his commandments.” (1 John 5:3.) And our Lord himself saith, “He that keepeth my commandments, he it is that loveth me.”…

  4. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    The Marks of the New Birth cites 1 John 5:3

    …k, “Does not the Apostle say, ‘This is the love of God, that we keep his commandments?’” (1 John 5:3.) Yea, and this is the love of our neighbour also, in the same sense as it is the love of…

  5. The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith · R. A. Torrey

    The New Birth cites 1 John 5:3

    …is constantly exercising a power over each of us to draw us into disobedience to God (see 1 John 5:3); but the one born of God by the power of the faith that comes through being born again, …

  6. How to Bring Men to Christ · R. A. Torrey

    Dealing with Those Who Are Anxious to Be Saved and Know How, but Who Have Difficulties cites 1 John v. 3

    …he Christian life being hard.” Then turn him to Matt. xi. 30; Prov. iii. 17; Ps. xvi. 11; 1 John v. 3, and show him that a Christian life is not hard but exceedingly pleasant. Then turn him t…

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