And we do know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love; and he who is abiding in love is abiding in God, and God is abiding in him.

If what you have heard from the beginning is abiding in you, you also will ever abide in the Son and in the Father.

He who keeps his commandments is abiding in Him, and Christ in him. By this we know that Christ is abiding in us, by the Spirit which he has given us.

But he who loves his brother is abiding in the light, and in it there is no cause of stumbling.

I have written to you, fathers, because you have learned to know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God is abiding in you, and you have fully overcome the Evil One.

and the world and its lusts are passing away, but he who ever does the will of God abides forever.

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.

As to you, the unction you received from him remains ever in you, and you need no teaching from any one. But since his unction teaches you concerning all things and is true, and is no lie, abide continually in him, as it has taught you to do.

And now continue to abide in him, my children, so that when he shall appear we may have cheerful confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

Whoever continually abides in him does not habitually sin; whoever lives in sin has not seen him, nor come to know him.

Whoever is a child of God cannot go on sinning, because his seed is abiding in him; and he cannot go on sinning because he is a child of God.

We know that we have migrated, out of death into life, because we love our brothers. He who has no love is abiding in death.

Every one who is hating his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

But whoever has this world's goods, and beholds his brother in need, and shuts up his heart against him, how can the love of God continue to abide in him?

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

By this we come to know that we are abiding in him, and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit;

If any man confesses that "Jesus is the Son of God." God is abiding in that man, and he in God.