Study Desk

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.

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.

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.

No one who has been born of God practices sin, because His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin continually, because he has been born of God.

not as Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And for what reason did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil, but his brother's were righteous.

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.

and whatever we ask, we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight.

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

You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.

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.

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.

This is the One who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and with the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning His Son.

because of the truth which remains in us and will be with us forever:

I, John, your brother and fellow participant in the tribulation and kingdom and perseverance in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

'But I have a few things against you, because you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who kept teaching Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.