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He that loves his brother abides in light, and there is no occasion of stumbling in him.

But he that hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and knows not where he goes, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

I write to you, children, because [your] sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.

And now, children, abide in him, that if he be manifested we may have boldness, and not be put to shame from before him at his coming.

Whoever has been begotten of God does not practise sin, because his seed abides in him, and he cannot sin, because he has been begotten of God.

In this are manifest the children of God and the children of the devil. Whoever does not practise righteousness is not of God, and he who does not love his brother.

not as Cain was of the wicked one, and slew his brother; and on account of what slew he him? because his works were wicked, and those of his brother righteous.

*We* know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love [his] brother abides in death.

Every one that hates his brother is a murderer, and ye know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

Hereby we have known love, because *he* has laid down his life for us; and *we* ought for the brethren to lay down [our] lives.

But whoso may have the world's substance, and see his brother having need, and shut up his bowels from him, how abides the love of God in him?

and whatsoever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments, and practise the things which are pleasing in his sight.

And this is his commandment, that we believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and that we love one another, even as he has given us commandment.

And he that keeps his commandments abides in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit which he has given to us.

Herein as to us has been manifested the love of God, that God has sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins.

No one has seen God at any time: if we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

Hereby we know that we abide in him and he in us, that he has given to us of his Spirit.

If any one say, I love God, and hate his brother, he is a liar: for he that loves not his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

And this commandment have we from him, That he that loves God love also his brother.