Daily Reading for Personal Growth, 40 Days with God

¹⁷ Anyone who has the means of life in this world, and sees a brother or sister in need, and closes their heart against them—how can God’s love be abiding in them? ¹⁸ Children, let us not love in word, or in speech, but in deed and in truth.

¹⁹ Because of this, we know we are of the truth, and we will persuade our hearts of this fact before him, ²⁰ because if our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts. He knows everything. ²¹ Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have boldness before God, ²² and we receive from him whatever we ask, because we keep his commands and give him pleasure when he sees what we are doing. ²³ And this is his command, that we should believe in the name of his son Jesus the Messiah, and should love one another, just as he gave us the commandment. ²⁴ Anyone who keeps his commandments abides in him, and he in them. This is how we know that he abides in us, by his spirit that he has given us.