The one who has my commandments and keeps them--that one is the one who loves me. And the one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him."

"Just as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.

who, [when he] arrived and saw the grace of God, rejoiced and encouraged [them] all to remain true to the Lord with {devoted hearts},

And we have come to know and have believed the love that God has in us. God is love, and the one who resides in love resides in God, and God resides in him.

We know that everyone who is fathered by God does not sin, but the one fathered by God, he protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.

And they conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives until death.

The mercy

For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came about through Jesus Christ.

to Timothy, [my] true child in the faith. Grace, mercy, [and] peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

to Timothy, [my] dear child. Grace, mercy, [and] peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

Unto

so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace would reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

For the compensation due sin [is] death, but the gift of God [is] eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

(The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. The one who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified concerning his Son.)

General references

And this is the promise which he himself promised us: eternal life.