Study Desk

For those who reject the Son reject also the Father; those who accept the Son have the Father also.

But as for you, Christ has poured out his Spirit on you. As long as his Spirit remains in you, you do not need anyone to teach you. For his Spirit teaches you about everything, and what he teaches is true, not false. Obey the Spirit's teaching, then, and remain in union with Christ.

Whoever continues to sin belongs to the Devil, because the Devil has sinned from the very beginning. The Son of God appeared for this very reason, to destroy what the Devil had done.

Those who are children of God do not continue to sin, for God's very nature is in them; and because God is their Father, they cannot continue to sin.

This is how we know what love is: Christ gave his life for us. We too, then, ought to give our lives for others!

My dear friends, do not believe all who claim to have the Spirit, but test them to find out if the spirit they have comes from God. For many false prophets have gone out everywhere.

Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.

And God showed his love for us by sending his only Son into the world, so that we might have life through him.

And we ourselves know and believe the love which God has for us. God is love, and those who live in love live in union with God and God lives in union with them.

If we say we love God, but hate others, we are liars. For we cannot love God, whom we have not seen, if we do not love others, whom we have seen.

For our love for God means that we obey his commands. And his commands are not too hard for us,

We have courage in God's presence, because we are sure that he hears us if we ask him for anything that is according to his will.

We know that no children of God keep on sinning, for the Son of God keeps them safe, and the Evil One cannot harm them.

Be on your guard, then, so that you will not lose what we have worked for, but will receive your reward in full.

For anyone who wishes them peace becomes their partner in the evil things they do.

My dear friend, you are so faithful in the work you do for other Christians, even when they are strangers.

For they set out on their trip in the service of Christ without accepting any help from unbelievers.

We Christians, then, must help these people, so that we may share in their work for the truth.

When I come, then, I will bring up everything he has done: the terrible things he says about us and the lies he tells! But that is not enough for him; he will not receive the Christians when they come, and even stops those who want to receive them and tries to drive them out of the church!

My dear friends, I was doing my best to write to you about the salvation we share in common, when I felt the need of writing at once to encourage you to fight on for the faith which once and for all God has given to his people.