From among us, they went out, but they were not of us; for, if, of us, they had been, they would in that case have abode with us; but it came to pass in order that they might be made manifest, because, all, are not of us.

Therefore ye, let what ye heard from the beginning abide in you. If what ye heard from the beginning abides in you, ye also will abide in the Son and in the Father.

And we know, and have believed the love that God has in us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

And he who keeps his commandments abides in him, and he in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, from the Spirit that he gave us.

But the anointing which you have received from him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as his anointing teaches you about all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, abide in him.

God abides in the one who acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, and he abides in God.

He who claims to abide in him he also ought so to walk just as that man walked.

He who loves his brother abides in the light, and no cause of stumbling is in him.

I wrote to you, fathers, because ye have know him from the beginning. I wrote to you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and ye have overcome evil.

And the world passes away, and the lust of it, but he who does the will of God abides into the age.

And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he is made known, we may have confidence, and not be shamed by him at his coming.

Every man abiding in him does not sin. Every man who is sinning has not seen him, nor has known him.

Every man who has been begotten of God is not doing sin, because his seed abides in him, and he cannot sin, because he has been begotten of God.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who is not loving the brother abides in death.

Every man hating his brother is a man-killer. And ye know that no man-killer has eternal life abiding in him.

But whoever has the world's living, and sees his brother having need, and closes his bowels from him, how does the love of God abide in him?

No man has ever seen God. If we love each other, God abides in us, and his love is in us, having been fully perfected.

In this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us from his Spirit.

Whoever denies the Son, the same has not the Father; but he who confesses the Son has the Father also. As for you, let what you have heard from the beginning abide in you.