ve of him is perfected in us. (13)In this we know that
we abide in him, and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
(14)And we have seen, and bear witness, that the Father has sent forth
the Son, a Savior of the world. (15)Whoever acknowledges that Jesus is
the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. (16)And we have
known, and have believed, the love that God has in respect to us. God
is love; and he that abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

(17)In this has love been perfected with us[4:17], that we have
confidence in the day of judgment; because as he is, we also are in
this world. (18)There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out
fear, because fear has torment[4:18]; and he that fears is not made
perfect in love. (19)We love, because he first loved us. (20)If any
one say, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he that
loves not his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he
has not seen? (21)And this commandment we have from him, that he who
loves God love also his brother.

V.

EVERY one who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been begotten of
God; and every one that loves him who begot, loves also him that has
been begotten of him. (2)In this we know that we love the children of
God, when we love God, and do his commandments. (3)For this is the
love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are
not burdensome; (4)because all that is begotten of God overcomes the
world; and this is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith.
(5)Who is he that overcomes the world, but he that believes that Jesus
is the Son of God?

(6)This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus the Christ; not in
the water only, but in the water and in the blood. And the Spirit is
that which bears witness, because the Spirit is the truth. (7)For
there are three who bear witness; the Spirit, and the water, and the
blood; (8)and the three agree in the one[5:8]. (9)If we receive the
witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is the witness
of God, that he has borne witness concerning his Son. (10)He that
believes on the Son of God has the witness in himself; he that
believes not God has made him a liar; because he has not believed in
the witness which God has borne concerning his Son. (11)And this is
the witness, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his
Son. (12)He that has the Son has the life; he that has not the Son of
God has not