Study Desk

We know we have left death and have come into life because we love each other. Whoever does not love is still dead.

And God gives us what we ask for because we obey God's commands and do what pleases him.

The people who obey God's commands live in God, and God lives in them. We know that God lives in us because of the Spirit God gave us.

My dear children, you belong to God and have defeated them; because God's Spirit, who is in you, is greater than the devil, who is in the world.

Dear friends, we should love each other, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has become God's child and knows God.

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

We know that we live in God and he lives in us, because he gave us his Spirit.

This is how love is made perfect in us: that we can be without fear on the day God judges us, because in this world we are like him.

Where God's love is, there is no fear, because God's perfect love drives out fear. It is punishment that makes a person fear, so love is not made perfect in the person who fears.

We love because God first loved us.

because everyone who is a child of God conquers the world. And this is the victory that conquers the world—our faith.

Jesus Christ is the One who came by water and blood. He did not come by water only, but by water and blood. And the Spirit says that this is true, because the Spirit is the truth.

Anyone who believes in the Son of God has the truth that God told us. Anyone who does not believe makes God a liar, because that person does not believe what God told us about his Son.

We love you because of the truth that lives in us and will be with us forever.

Look, Jesus is coming with the clouds, and everyone will see him, even those who stabbed him. And all peoples of the earth will cry loudly because of him. Yes, this will happen! Amen.

I, John, am your brother. All of us share with Christ in suffering, in the kingdom, and in patience to continue. I was on the island of Patmos, because I had preached the word of God and the message about Jesus.

But you have a few there in Sardis who have kept their clothes unstained, so they will walk with me and will wear white clothes, because they are worthy.

But because you are lukewarm—neither hot, nor cold—I am ready to spit you out of my mouth.

"You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, because you made all things. Everything existed and was made, because you wanted it."

I cried bitterly because there was no one who was worthy to open the scroll or look inside.