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.

We know that we have crossed over from death to life because we love our fellow Christians. The one who does not love remains in death.

Jesus Christ is the one who came by water and blood – not by the water only, but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

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

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us insight to know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.

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.

By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we may live through him.

There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears punishment has not been perfected in love.

Now as for you, the anointing that you received from him resides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things, it is true and is not a lie. Just as it has taught you, you reside in him.

and the life was revealed, and we have seen and testify and announce to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us).

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.

(See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God’s children – and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.

By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness – the one who does not love his fellow Christian – is not of God.

but every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God, and this is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now is already in the world.

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

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

And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

Now this is the gospel message we have heard from him and announce to you: God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.

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.

Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.