ntinues in love continues in God and God in him.
5 [4:17]By this is love perfected with us, that we may have boldness in
the day of judgment, that as he is we also are in this world.
[4:18]There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear; for
fear has pain; and he that is afraid is not made perfect in love.
[4:19]We love, because he first loved us. [4:20] If any one says, 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?
[4:21]And we have this commandment from him, that he who loves God
should also love his brother.
6 [5:1]Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of
God, and every one who loves the Father loves also the Son who is born
to him. [5:2] By this we know that we love the children of God, when we
love God and keep his commandments. [5:3]For this is the love of God,
that we keep his commandments; and his commandments are not grievous;
[5:4]for every child that has been born of God overcomes the world; and
this is the victory which overcomes the world, our faith. [5:5]Who is
he that overcomes the world, but he that believes that Jesus is the Son
of God?
7 [5:6]This is he that came by water and blood, Jesus, the Christ; not
by water only, but by water and by blood; and the Spirit is that which
testifies, for the Spirit is the truth. [5:7]For there are three that
testify; the Spirit, and the water, and the blood; and the three are
one. [5:9]If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is
greater; for this is the testimony of God that he has testified
concerning his Son. [5:10]He that believes on the Son of God has the
testimony in himself; he that believes not God has made him a liar,
because he has not believed in the testimony which God has testified
concerning his Son. [5:11]And this is the testimony, that God gave us
eternal life, and this life is in his Son. [5:12]He that has the Son
has the life; he that has not the Son has not the life.
8 [5:13]These things have I written to you, that you who believe in the
name of the Son of God may know that you have eternal life. [5:14]And
this is the confidence which we have in respect to him, that if we ask
any thing according to his will he hears us. [5:15]And if we know that
he hears us whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which
we have asked of him. [5:16]If any one sees his brother commit a sin,
not to de
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