but whoever follows His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him:

The one who loves his brother and sister remains in the Light, and there is nothing in him to cause stumbling.

Do Not Love the World

Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Children of God Love One Another

See how great a love the Father has given us, that we would be called children of God; and in fact we are. For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know Him.

By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother and sister.

For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we are to love one another;

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers and sisters. The one who does not love remains in death.

We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers and sisters.

But whoever has worldly goods and sees his brother or sister in need, and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God remain in him?

Little children, let’s not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.

This is His commandment, that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He commanded us.

God Is Love

Beloved, let’s love one another; for love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

By this the love of God was revealed in us, that God has sent His only Son into the world so that we may live through Him.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.

We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, we also are in this world.

There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love.

We love, because He first loved us.

If someone says, “I love God,” and yet he hates his brother or sister, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother and sister whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God must also love his brother and sister.

Overcoming the World

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves the child born of Him.

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and follow His commandments.

For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome.