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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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,

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

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

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.

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.

(The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified concerning his Son.)

the Spirit and the water and the blood, and these three are in agreement.

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.

And you know that Jesus was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.

Everyone who resides in him does not sin; everyone who sins has neither seen him nor known him.