²⁴ As for you, see that what you have heard from the beginning^(A) remains in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.^(B)

²³ Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching.^(A) My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.^(B)

⁹ “As the Father has loved me,^(A) so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. ¹⁰ If you keep my commands,^(B) you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.

⁵ And now, dear lady, I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the beginning.^(A) I ask that we love one another. ⁶ And this is love:^(B) that we walk in obedience to his commands.^(C) As you have heard from the beginning,^(D) his command is that you walk in love.

¹⁶ And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.

God is love.^(A) Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.^(B)

¹³ This is how we know^(A) that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit.^(B)

⁷ Dear friends,^(A) I am not writing you a new command but an old one, which you have had since the beginning.^(B) This old command is the message you have heard.

⁷ But if we walk in the light,^(A) as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all^[a] sin.^(B)