¹¹ But anyone who hates a brother or sister^(A) is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness.^(B) They do not know where they are going, because the darkness has blinded them.^(C)

On Not Loving the World

¹⁵ Do not love the world or anything in the world.^(A) If anyone loves the world, love for the Father^[a] is not in them.^{(B) 16} For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh,^(C) the lust of the eyes,^(D) and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.

⁶ No one who lives in him keeps on sinning.^(A) No one who continues to sin has either seen him^(B) or known him.^(C)

⁷ Dear children,^(D) do not let anyone lead you astray.^(E) The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous.^{(F) 8} The one who does what is sinful is of the devil,^(G) because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God^(H) appeared was to destroy the devil’s work.^{(I) 9} No one who is born of God^(J) will continue to sin,^(K) because God’s seed^(L) remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God. ¹⁰ This is how we know who the children of God^(M) are and who the children of the devil^(N) are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love^(O) their brother and sister.^(P)

¹⁴ We know that we have passed from death to life,^(A) because we love each other. Anyone who does not love remains in death.^{(B) 15} Anyone who hates a brother or sister^(C) is a murderer,^(D) and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.^(E)

²⁰ Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister^(A) is a liar.^(B) For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen,^(C) cannot love God, whom they have not seen.^(D)

² This is how we know^(A) that we love the children of God:^(B) by loving God and carrying out his commands.