Study Desk

So who is the liar? It is the one who says Jesus is not the Messiah. Whoever says that is the enemy of Christ—the one who does not believe in the Father or in his Son.

Christ gave you a special gift. You still have this gift in you. So you don't need anyone to teach you. The gift he gave you teaches you about everything. It is a true gift, not a false one. So continue to live in Christ, as his gift taught you.

The Father has loved us so much! This shows how much he loved us: We are called children of God. And we really are his children. But the people in the world don't understand that we are God's children, because they have not known him.

Don't be like Cain. He belonged to the Evil One. Cain killed his brother. But why did he kill him? Because what Cain did was evil, and what his brother did was good.

This is how we know what real love is: Jesus gave his life for us. So we should give our lives for each other as brothers and sisters.

This is what God commands: that we believe in his Son Jesus Christ, and that we love each other as he commanded.

This is how God showed his love to us: He sent his only Son into the world to give us life through him.

True love is God's love for us, not our love for God. He sent his Son as the way to take away our sins.

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

We have seen that the Father sent his Son to be the Savior of the world, and this is what we tell people now.

Where God's love is, there is no fear, because God's perfect love takes away fear. It is his punishment that makes a person fear. So his love is not made perfect in the one who has fear.

If we say we love God but hate any of our brothers or sisters in his family, we are liars. If we don't love someone we have seen, how can we love God? We have never even seen him.

How do we know that we love God's children? We know because we love God and we obey his commands.

Loving God means obeying his commands. And God's commands are not too hard for us,

We believe people when they say something is true. But what God says is more important. And this is what God told us: He told us the truth about his own Son.

Whoever believes in the Son of God has the truth that God told us. But people who do not believe God make God a liar, because they do not believe what God told us about his Son.

This is what God told us: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding. So now we can know the one who is true, and we live in that true God. We are in his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the true God, and he is eternal life.

Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us from God the Father and from his Son, Jesus Christ, as we live in truth and love.

Everyone must continue to follow only the teaching about Christ. Whoever changes that teaching does not have God. But whoever continues to follow the teaching about Christ has both the Father and his Son.