By this ¹  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 ²  – is not of God.

not like Cain ¹  who was of the evil one and brutally ²  murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, but his brother’s were righteous.

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,

and ¹  whatever we ask we receive from him, because ²  we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing to him.

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, ¹  but test ²  the spirits ³  to determine ⁴  if they are from God, because many false prophets ⁵  have gone out into the world.

By this ¹  we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and obey his commandments.

And if we know ¹  that he hears us in regard to whatever we ask, then we know that we have the requests that we have asked from him.

The one who practices sin is of the devil, ¹  because the devil has been sinning ²  from the beginning. For this purpose ³  the Son of God was revealed: to destroy ⁴  the works of the devil.

But whoever has the world’s possessions ¹  and sees his fellow Christian ²  in need and shuts off his compassion against him, how can the love of God ³  reside ⁴  in such a person? ⁵