If we say we have fellowship with him and yet keep on walking in the darkness, we are lying and not practicing the truth.

If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar and his word is not in us.

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.

Everyone who hates his fellow Christian is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.

We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.

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

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to determine if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

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.

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

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

Now who is the person who has conquered the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

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

I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.

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

I rejoiced greatly because I have found some of your children living according to the truth, just as the Father commanded us.

For many deceivers have gone out into the world, people who do not confess Jesus as Christ coming in the flesh. This person is the deceiver and the antichrist!

Demetrius has been testified to by all, even by the truth itself. We also testify to him, and you know that our testimony is true.

Now I desire to remind you (even though you have been fully informed of these facts once for all) that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, later destroyed those who did not believe.

Woe to them! For they have traveled down Cain’s path, and because of greed have abandoned themselves to Balaam’s error; hence, they will certainly perish in Korah’s rebellion.