Let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you also will abide in the Son and in the Father.

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.

Now those who keep his commandments abide in him, and he in them. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.

So we know and believe the love God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

he who says he abides in him ought to walk as he walked.

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

I wrote to you, little children, because you have known the Father. I wrote to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I wrote to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.

And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

No one who abides in him sins. No one who sins has either seen him or known him.

We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love abides in death.

Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him?

No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

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

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.