Study Desk

My little children, I am writing you these things so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ the righteous one.

He himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours, but also for those of the whole world.

But whoever keeps his word, truly in him the love of God is made complete. This is how we know we are in him:

Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command but an old command that you have had from the beginning. The old command is the word you have heard.

The one who says he is in the light but hates his brother or sister is in the darkness until now.

But the one who hates his brother or sister is in the darkness, walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he’s going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride in one’s possessions—is not from the Father, but is from the world.

And the world with its lust is passing away, but the one who does the will of God remains forever.

They went out from us, but they did not belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. However, they went out so that it might be made clear that none of them belongs to us.

But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.

I have not written to you because you don’t know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie comes from the truth.

If anyone has this world’s goods and sees a fellow believer in need but withholds compassion from him—how does God’s love reside in him?

Little children, let us not love in word or speech, but in action and in truth.

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

but every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming; even now it is already in the world.

Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Who is the one who conquers the world but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

Jesus Christ—he is the one who came by water and blood, not by water only, but by water and by blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

We know that everyone who has been born of God does not sin, but the one who is born of God keeps him, and the evil one does not touch him.

So now I ask you, dear lady—not as if I were writing you a new command, but one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another.