1 John 3:10
3:10 By this
the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness – the one who does not love his fellow Christian
– is not of God.
1 John 3:12
3:12 not like Cain
who was of the evil one and brutally
murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, but his brother’s were righteous.
1 John 2:15
2:15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,
1 John 3:22
3:22 and
whatever we ask we receive from him, because
we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing to him.
1 John 4:1
Testing the Spirits
4:1 Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to determine if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
1 John 5:2
5:2 By this
we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and obey his commandments.
1 John 5:15
5:15 And if we know
that he hears us in regard to whatever we ask, then we know that we have the requests that we have asked from him.
1 John 3:8
3:8 The one who practices sin is of the devil,
because the devil has been sinning
from the beginning. For this purpose
the Son of God was revealed: to destroy
the works of the devil.
1 John 3:17
3:17 But whoever has the world’s possessions
and sees his fellow Christian
in need and shuts off his compassion against him, how can the love of God
reside
in such a person?