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

The one who says “I have come to know God” and yet does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in such a person.

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.

and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing to him.

For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments do not weigh us down,

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.

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.