We love because he loved us first.

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

If anyone says “I love God” and yet hates his fellow Christian, he is a liar, because the one who does not love his fellow Christian whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

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

Now this is the promise that he himself made to us: eternal life.

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.

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

Everyone who has been fathered by God does not practice sin, because God’s seed resides in him, and thus he is not able to sin, because he has been fathered by God.

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

If you know that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered by him.

and he himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for our sins but also for the whole world.

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.

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.

But if we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous, forgiving us our sins and cleansing us from all unrighteousness.

Now this is his commandment: that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he gave us the commandment.

In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

And this is the confidence that we have before him: that whenever we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

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.

If we accept the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, because this is the testimony of God that he has testified concerning his Son.

Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever it is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is.