Let Truth Abide in You

²⁴ Therefore let that abide in you ^(A)which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, ^(B)you also will abide in the Son and in the Father.

²³ Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, ^(A)and We will come to him and make Our home with him.

Love and Joy Perfected

⁹ “As the Father ^(A)loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. ^10 (B)If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.

⁵ And now I plead with you, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment to you, but that which we have had from the beginning: ^(A)that we love one another. ^6 (B)This is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, that ^(C)as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in it.

¹⁶ And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and ^(A)he who abides in love abides in God, and God ^(B)in him.