The way we can be sure we know him is if we are OBEYING his commands.
Anyone who says, “I know him,” but ISN’T OBEYING him.
But if someone keeps doing what he says, then truly love for God has been brought to its goal in him.

THIS IS HOW we are sure that we are united with him….
A person who claims to be continuing in union with him ought to conduct his life the way he did.
Anyone who claims to be in this light while HATING his brother is still in the DARK.
The person who keeps loving his brother remains in the light, and there is nothing in him that could make him trip.
But the person who HATES his brother is in the DARK — yes, he is walking in the DARK, and he doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has BLINDED his eyes.
I have written you because you are STRONG — the Word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the Evil One.
Do NOT love the WORLD or the things of the world.
IF someone loves the WORLD…
THEN love for the Father is NOT in him;
because ALL the things of the WORLD — the desires of the old nature, the desires of the eyes, and the pretensions of life —
are NOT from the Father but from the WORLD.
But whoever DOES GOD’S WILL REMAINS FOREVER.
Who is a LIAR at all, if not the person who DENIES that YESHUA is the MESSIAH?
Such a person is an ANTI-MESSIAH — he is DENYING THE FATHER and the SON.
Everyone who DENIES the SON is also WOTHOUT the FATHER,
but the person who ACKNOWLEDGES the SON HAS the FATHER as well.
Let what you heard from the beginning remain in you. IF what you heard from the beginning remains in you, YOU will also RSMAIN in UNION with both the SON and the FATHER.
And THIS is what he has PROMISED us:
ETERNAL LIFE.
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