1 John 2:3-6
English Standard Version
3 And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we (A)keep his commandments. 4 Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments (B)is a liar, and (C)the truth is not in him, 5 but whoever (D)keeps his word, in him truly (E)the love of God is perfected. (F)By this we may know that we are in him: 6 whoever says he (G)abides in him (H)ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.
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1 John 2:3-6
International Standard Version
3 This is how we can be sure that we have come to know him: if we continually keep his commandments. 4 The person who says, “I have come to know him,” but does not continually keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth has no place in that person. 5 But whoever continually keeps his commandments is the kind of person in whom God’s love has truly been perfected. This is how we can be sure that we are in union with God:[a] 6 The one who says that he abides in him must live the same way he himself lived.
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- 1 John 2:5 Lit. him
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