By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments.

The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;

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

But the one who hates his brother or sister is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

I am writing to you, fathers, because you know Him who has been from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I have written to you, children, because you know the Father.

I have written to you, fathers, because you know Him who has been from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour.

But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know.

I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness also has been born of 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.

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is.

You know that He appeared in order to take away sins; and in Him there is no sin.

No one who remains in Him sins continually; no one who sins continually has seen Him or knows Him.

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.

Everyone who hates his brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.

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.

We will know by this that we are of the truth, and will set our heart at ease before Him,

that if our heart condemns us, that God is greater than our heart, and He knows all things.

The one who keeps His commandments remains in Him, and He in him. We know by this that He remains in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.

By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God;

We are from God. The one who knows God listens to us; the one who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

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 we know that we remain in Him and He in us, because He has given to us of His Spirit.