Study Desk

We are conscious that we have come out of death into life because of our love for the brothers. He who has no love is still in death.

Anyone who has hate for his brother is a taker of life, and you may be certain that no taker of life has eternal life in him.

In this we see what love is, because he gave his life for us; and it is right for us to give our lives for the brothers.

But if a man has this world's goods, and sees that his brother is in need, and keeps his heart shut against his brother, how is it possible for the love of God to be in him?

And this is his law, that we have faith in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love for one another, even as he said to us.

My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.

And this is love, not that we had love for God, but that he had love for us, and sent his Son to be an offering for our sins.

My loved ones, if God had such love for us, it is right for us to have love for one another.

No man has ever seen God: if we have love for one another, God is in us and his love is made complete in us:

And we have seen and had faith in the love which God has for us. God is love, and everyone who has love is in God, and God is in him.

There is no fear in love: true love has no room for fear, because where fear is, there is pain; and he who is not free from fear is not complete in love.

We have the power of loving, because he first had love for us.

If a man says, I have love for God, and has hate for his brother, his words are false: for how is the man who has no love for his brother whom he has seen, able to have love for God whom he has not seen?

And this is the word which we have from him, that he who has love for God is to have the same love for his brother.

Everyone who has faith that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God: and everyone who has love for the Father has love for his child.

In this way, we are certain that we have love for the children of God, when we have love for God and keep his laws.

For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.

I have put these things in writing for you who have faith in the name of the Son of God, so that you may be certain that you have eternal life.

If a man sees his brother doing a sin which is not bad enough for death, let him make a prayer to God, and God will give life to him whose sin was not bad enough for death. There is a sin whose punishment is death: I do not say that he may make such a request then.

All evil-doing is sin: but death is not the punishment for every sort of sin.