This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands.
NIV
By this we come to know (recognize and understand) that we love the children of God: when we love God and obey His commands (orders, charges)--[when we keep His ordinances and are mindful of His precepts and His teaching].
AMP
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
KJV
So if you faithfully obey the commands I am giving you today – to love the LORD your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul –
NIV
And if you will diligently heed My commandments which I command you this day--to love the Lord your God and to serve Him with all your [mind and] heart and with your entire being--
AMP
And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
KJV
By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies, was not killed with those who were disobedient.
NIV
[Prompted] by faith Rahab the prostitute was not destroyed along with those who refused to believe and obey, because she had received the spies in peace [without enmity]. [Josh. 2:1-21; 6:22-25.]AMP
By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.
KJV
Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.
NIV
Anyone who does not [really] love Me does not observe and obey My teaching. And the teaching which you hear and heed is not Mine, but [comes] from the Father Who sent Me.
AMP
He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.
KJV
Sacrifice and offering you did not desire – but my ears you have opened – burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not require.
NIV
Sacrifice and offering You do not desire, nor have You delight in them; You have given me the capacity to hear and obey[Your law, a more valuable service than] burnt offerings and sin offerings [which] You do not require.
AMP
Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
KJV
He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him, and he must do so in a manner worthy of full respect.
NIV
He must rule his own household well, keeping his children under control, with true dignity, commanding their respect in every way and keeping them respectful.
AMP
One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
KJV
Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; hold it fast, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you.
NIV
So call to mind the lessons you received and heard; continually lay them to heart and obey them, and repent. In case you will not rouse yourselves and keep awake and watch, I will come upon you like a thief, and you will not know or suspect at what hour I will come.
AMP
Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
KJV
Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.
NIV
KEEP YOUR foot [give your mind to what you are doing] when you go [as Jacob to sacred Bethel] to the house of God. For to draw near to hear and obey is better than to give the sacrifice of fools [carelessly, irreverently] too ignorant to know that they are doing evil. [Gen. 35:1-4; Exod. 3:5.]AMP
Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
KJV
