Study Desk

By this the children of God and the children of the devil are evident: everyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, namely, the one who does not love his brother.

not as Cain, who was of the evil one and violently murdered his brother. And for what reason did he violently murder him? Because his deeds were evil and the deeds of his brother were righteous.

Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that every murderer does not have eternal life residing in him.

We have come to know love by this: that he laid down his life on behalf of us, and we ought to lay down our lives on behalf of the brothers.

But whoever has the world's material possessions and observes his brother in need and shuts his heart against him, how does the love of God reside in him?

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

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

And the one who keeps his commandments resides in him, and he in him. And by this we know that he resides in us: by the Spirit whom he has given to us.

By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God sent his one and only Son into the world in order that we may live through him.

In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God resides in us and his love is perfected in us.

By this we know that we reside in him and he in us: that he has given us of his Spirit.

If anyone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar, for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen is not able to love God whom he has not seen.

And this is the commandment we have from him: that the one who loves God should love his brother also.

By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and keep his commandments.

For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome,

If we receive the testimony of people, the testimony of God is greater, because this is the testimony of God that he has testified concerning his Son.

(The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. The one who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified concerning his Son.)

And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

And this is the confidence that we have before him: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.