Study Desk

If you are reproached for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.

by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, that through these you may escape from the corruption that is in the world because of passion, and become partakers of the divine nature.

because no prophecy ever came by the impulse of man, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.

And many will follow their licentiousness, and because of them the way of truth will be reviled.

waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be kindled and dissolved, and the elements will melt with fire!

Yet I am writing you a new commandment, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.

But he who hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

I am writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven for his sake.

I am writing to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, children, because you know the Father.

I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and know that no lie is of the truth.

No one born of God commits sin; for God's nature abides in him, and he cannot sin because he is born of God.

and not be like Cain who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love abides in death.

and we receive from him whatever we ask, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.

By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his own Spirit.

In this is love perfected with us, that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so are we in this world.

We love, because he first loved us.

And the Spirit is the witness, because the Spirit is the truth.

He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne to his Son.