Another Counselor Promised

¹⁵ “If you love me, you will keep^[a] my commands.^(A)

¹⁴ You are my friends if you do what I command you.

5 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God,^(A) and everyone who loves the Father^[a] also loves the one born of him. ² This is how we know that we love God’s children: when we love God and obey^[b] his commands. ³ For this is what love for God is: to keep his commands. And his commands are not a burden,^{(B) 4} because everyone who has been born of God conquers the world. This is the victory that has conquered the world: our faith.

The Certainty of God’s Testimony

⁵ Who is the one who conquers the world^(C) but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?^(D)

³ For although we live in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh, ⁴ since the weapons of our warfare^(A) are not of the flesh, but are powerful^(B) through God for the demolition of strongholds. We demolish arguments ⁵ and every proud thing that is raised up against the knowledge^(C) of God, and we take every thought captive to obey Christ. ⁶ And we are ready to punish any disobedience, once your obedience is complete.

⁷ Look at what is obvious.^[a] If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ,^(D) let him remind himself of this: Just as he belongs to Christ, so do we.