Study Desk

The one practicing sin is of the devil, because the devil sins from the beginning. For this the Son of God was revealed, that He might undo the works of the devil.

Everyone who has been begotten of God does not sin, because His seed abides in him, and he is not able to sin, because he has been born of God.

By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone not practicing righteousness is not of God; also the one not loving his brother.

By this we have known the love of God , because that One laid down His life for us; and on behalf of the brothers we ought to lay down our lives.

Whoever has the means of life of the world, and sees his brother having need, and shuts up his heart of compassion from him, how does the love of God abide in him?

that if our heart accuses us, we know that God is greater than our heart and knows all things.

Beloved, if our heart does not accuse us, we have confidence with God.

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

By this know the Spirit of God: every spirit which confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God.

And every spirit which does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not from God; and this is the antichrist which you heard is coming, and now is already in the world.

Little children, you are of God and have overcome them, because He in you is greater than he in the world.

We are of God; the one knowing God hears us. Whoever is not of God does not hear us. From this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God, and everyone who loves has been generated from God, and knows God.

The one who does not love has not known God, because God is love.

By this the love of God was revealed in us, because His Son, the Only begotten, God has sent into the world that we might live through Him.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be a propitiation relating to our sins.

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love having been perfected is in us.

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

And we have known and have believed the love which God has in us. God is love, and the one abiding in love abides in God, and God in him.