Study Desk

This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.

The one who says, "I have come to know Him," and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;

but whoever follows His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him:

the one who says that he remains in Him ought, himself also, to walk just as He walked.

On the other hand, I am writing a new commandment to you, which is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true Light is already shining.

The one who loves his brother and sister remains in the Light, and there is nothing in him to cause stumbling.

Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

And as for you, the anointing which you received from Him remains in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you; but as His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you remain in Him.

Now, little children, remain in Him, so that when He appears, we may have confidence and not draw back from Him in shame at His coming.

You know that He appeared in order to take away sins; and in Him there is no sin.

No one who remains in Him sins continually; no one who sins continually has seen Him or knows Him.

No one who has been born of God practices sin, because His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin continually, because he has been born of God.

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

But whoever has worldly goods and sees his brother or sister in need, and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God remain in him?

The one who keeps His commandments remains in Him, and He in him. We know by this that He remains in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.

By this we know that we remain in Him and He in us, because He has given to us of His Spirit.

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God.

We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.