But whoever obeys his word, truly in this person the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in him.

By this we know that we reside in God and he in us: in that he has given us of his Spirit.

As for you, what you have heard from the beginning must remain in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.

And the person who keeps his commandments resides in God, and God in him. Now by this we know that God resides in us: by the Spirit he has given us.

The one who says he is in the light but still hates his fellow Christian is still in the darkness.

The one who loves his fellow Christian resides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him.

By this love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, because just as Jesus is, so also are we in this world.

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,

And now, little children, remain in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink away from him in shame when he comes back.

By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses Jesus as the Christ who has come in the flesh is from God,

You are from God, little children, and have conquered them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God resides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God resides in him and he in God.

Now by this we know that we have come to know God: if we keep his commandments.

The one who says he resides in God ought himself to walk just as Jesus walked.

Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue but in deed and truth.

And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has in us. God is love, and the one who resides in love resides in God, and God resides in him.

But if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

On the other hand, I am writing a new commandment to you which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.

But the one who hates his fellow Christian is in the darkness, walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.