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Do not be surprised, brethren, if ^(ak)the world hates you.

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

Everyone who ^(an)hates his brother is a murderer; and you know that ^(ao)no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

We know love by this, that ^(ap)He laid down His life for us; and ^(aq)we ought to lay down our lives for the ^(ar)brethren.

But ^(as)whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need and ^(at)closes his ^[g]heart ^[h]against him, ^(au)how does the love of God abide in him?

^(av)Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and ^(aw)truth.

We will know by this that we are ^(ax)of the truth, and will ^[i]assure our heart before Him

^[j]in whatever our heart condemns us; for God is greater than our heart and knows all things.

^(ay)Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have ^(az)confidence ^[k]before God;

and ^(ba)whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we ^(bb)keep His commandments and do ^(bc)the things that are pleasing in His sight.

This is His commandment, that we ^[l](bd)believe in ^(be)the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as ^(bf)He ^[m]commanded us.

The one who ^(bg)keeps His commandments ^(bh)abides in Him, and He in him. ^(bi)We know by this that ^(bj)He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.

^(a)Beloved, do not believe every ^(b)spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because ^(c)many false prophets have gone out into the world.

By this you know the Spirit of God: ^(d)every spirit that ^(e)confesses that ^(f)Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God;

and every spirit that ^(g)does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the ^(h)antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and ⁽ⁱ⁾now it is already in the world.

You are from God, ^(j)little children, and ^(k)have overcome them; because ^(l)greater is He who is in you than ^(m)he who is in the world.

⁽ⁿ⁾They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them.

^(o)We are from God; ^(p)he who knows God listens to us; ^(q)he who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know ^(r)the spirit of truth and ^(s)the spirit of error.

^(t)Beloved, let us ^(u)love one another, for love is from God; and ^(v)everyone who loves is ^[a](w)born of God and ^(x)knows God.

The one who does not love does not know God, for ^(y)God is love.

By this the love of God was manifested ^[b](z)in us, that ^(aa)God has sent His ^[c]only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him.

In this is love, ^(ab)not that we loved God, but that ^(ac)He loved us and sent His Son to be ^(ad)the propitiation for our sins.

^(ae)Beloved, if God so loved us, ^(af)we also ought to love one another.

^(ag)No one has seen God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His ^(ah)love is perfected in us.

^(ai)By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.

We have seen and ^(aj)testify that the Father has ^(ak)sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.

^(al)Whoever confesses that ^(am)Jesus is the Son of God, God ^(an)abides in him, and he in God.

^(ao)We have come to know and have believed the love which God has ^[d](ap)for us. ^(aq)God is love, and the one who ^(ar)abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

By this, ^(as)love is perfected with us, so that we may have ^(at)confidence in ^(au)the day of judgment; because ^(av)as He is, so also are we in this world.

There is no fear in love; but ^(aw)perfect love casts out fear, because fear ^[e]involves punishment, and the one who fears is not ^(ax)perfected in love.

^(ay)We love, because He first loved us.

^(az)If someone says, "I love God," and ^(ba)hates his brother, he is a ^(bb)liar; for ^(bc)the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, ^(bd)cannot love God whom he has not seen.

And ^(be)this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God ^(bf)should love his brother also.

^(a)Whoever believes that Jesus is the ^[a]Christ is ^[b](b)born of God, and whoever loves the ^[c]Father ^(c)loves the child ^[d]born of Him.

^(d)By this we know that ^(e)we love the children of God, when we love God and ^[e]observe His commandments.

For ^(f)this is the love of God, that we ^(g)keep His commandments; and ^(h)His commandments are not burdensome.

For whatever is ^[f](i)born of God ^(j)overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.

Who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who ^(k)believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

This is the One who came ^(l)by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not ^[g]with the water only, but ^[h]with the water and ^[i]with the blood. It is ^(m)the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

For there are ⁽ⁿ⁾three that testify:

^[j]the Spirit and the water and the blood; and the three are ^[k]in agreement.

^(o)If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater; for the testimony of God is this, that ^(p)He has testified concerning His Son.

The one who believes in the Son of God ^(q)has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has ^(r)made Him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning His Son.

And the testimony is this, that God has given us ^(s)eternal life, and ^(t)this life is in His Son.

^(u)He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.

^(v)These things I have written to you who ^(w)believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have ^(x)eternal life.

This is ^(y)the confidence which we have ^[l]before Him, that, ^(z)if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.

And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, ^(aa)we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him.

If anyone sees his brother ^[m]committing a sin not leading to death, ^(ab)he shall ask and ^[n]God will for him give life to those who commit sin not leading to death. ^(ac)There is a sin leading to death; ^(ad)I do not say that he should make request for this.

^(ae)All unrighteousness is sin, and ^(af)there is a sin not leading to death.

^(ag)We know that ^(ah)no one who is ^[o]born of God sins; but He who was ^[p]born of God ^(ai)keeps him, and ^(aj)the evil one does not ^(ak)touch him.

^(al)We know that ^(am)we are of God, and that ^(an)the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

And ^(ao)we know that ^(ap)the Son of God has come, and has ^(aq)given us understanding so that we may know ^(ar)Him who is true; and we ^(as)are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. ^(at)This is the true God and ^(au)eternal life.

^(av)Little children, guard yourselves from ^(aw)idols.