We know that everyone fathered by God does not sin, but God protects the one he has fathered, and the evil one cannot touch him.

Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.

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.

We are from God; the person who knows God listens to us, but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit.