“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
Acts 5:29
"But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men."
1 Peter 1:14
"As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,"
1 John 5:3
"For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome."
The evidence that we are born again is that we love God's commandments. When we fail we hate it and quickly confess to return to obedience.
Exodus 23:22
“But if you carefully obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries."
Those who are an enemy of God are our enemies too. Those who are our enemies because of Christ will be God's enemies too.
1 John 3:24
"Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us."
We do not become born again because we keep God's commandments. We keep God's commandments because we are born again.
Luke 11:28
"But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”
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