Study Desk

As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need anyone to teach you. Instead, his anointing teaches you about all things and is true and is not a lie; just as it has taught you, remain in him.

So now, little children, remain in him so that when he appears we may have confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

Everyone who has been born of God does not sin, because his seed remains in him; he is not able to sin, because he has been born of God.

This is how God’s children and the devil’s children become obvious. Whoever does not do what is right is not of God, especially the one who does not love his brother or sister.

unlike Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s were righteous.

Everyone who hates his brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.

This is how we have come to know love: He laid down his life for us. We should also lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.

and receive whatever we ask from him because we keep his commands and do what is pleasing in his sight.

Now this is his command: that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another as he commanded us.

The one who keeps his commands remains in him, and he in him. And the way we know that he remains in us is from the Spirit he has given us.

God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his one and only Son into the world so that we might live through him.

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.

No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God remains in us and his love is made complete in us.

This is how we know that we remain in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit.

And we have seen and we testify that the Father has sent his Son as the world’s Savior.

If anyone says, “I love God,” and yet hates his brother or sister, he is a liar. For the person who does not love his brother or sister whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

And we have this command from him: The one who loves God must also love his brother and sister.

This is how we know that we love God’s children: when we love God and obey his commands.

For this is what love for God is: to keep his commands. And his commands are not a burden,

If we accept human testimony, God’s testimony is greater, because it is God’s testimony that he has given about his Son.