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

By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and obey his commandments.

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

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.

because all that is in the world (the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the arrogance produced by material possessions) is not from the Father, but is from the world.