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

By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

whenever our hearts condemn us; for God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are of God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Little children, you are of God, and have overcome them; for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God, and he who loves is born of God and knows God.

He who does not love does not know God; for God is love.

In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins.

So we know and believe the love God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

In this is love perfected with us, that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so are we in this world.

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and he who fears is not perfected in love.

If any one says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith.

If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater; for this is the testimony of God that he has borne witness to his Son.

If any one sees his brother committing what is not a mortal sin, he will ask, and God will give him life for those whose sin is not mortal. There is sin which is mortal; I do not say that one is to pray for that.

because of the truth which abides in us and will be with us for ever:

For many deceivers have gone out into the world, men who will not acknowledge the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh; such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist.

Look to yourselves, that you may not lose what you have worked for, but may win a full reward.

for he who greets him shares his wicked work.