Study Desk

Everything will be destroyed. So you should serve and honor God by the way you live.

You should look forward to the day when God judges everyone, and you should try to make it come soon. On that day the heavens will be destroyed by fire, and everything else will melt in the heat.

But God has promised us a new heaven and a new earth, where justice will rule. We are really looking forward to that!

Don't forget that the Lord is patient because he wants people to be saved. This is also what our dear friend Paul said when he wrote you with the wisdom that God had given him.

Jesus told us that God is light and doesn't have any darkness in him. Now we are telling you.

If we say that we share in life with God and keep on living in the dark, we are lying and are not living by the truth.

But if we live in the light, as God does, we share in life with each other. And the blood of his Son Jesus washes all our sins away.

But if we confess our sins to God, he can always be trusted to forgive us and take our sins away.

If we say that we have not sinned, we make God a liar, and his message isn't in our hearts.

When we obey God, we are sure that we know him.

We truly love God only when we obey him as we should, and then we know that we belong to him.

The world and the desires it causes are disappearing. But if we obey God, we will live forever.

You know that Christ always does right and that everyone who does right is a child of God.

Anyone who keeps on sinning belongs to the devil. He has sinned from the beginning, but the Son of God came to destroy all that he has done.

If we have all we need and see one of our own people in need, we must have pity on that person, or else we cannot say we love God.

When we love others, we know that we belong to the truth, and we feel at ease in the presence of God.

But even if we don't feel at ease, God is greater than our feelings, and he knows everything.

Dear friends, if we feel at ease in the presence of God, we will have the courage to come near him.

God wants us to have faith in his Son Jesus Christ and to love each other. This is also what Jesus taught us to do.

Dear friends, don't believe everyone who claims to have the Spirit of God. Test them all to find out if they really do come from God. Many false prophets have already gone out into the world,