As for you, let that which ye heard from the beginning abide in you. If that which ye heard from the beginning abide in you, ye also shall abide in the Son and in the Father.

And we have known and believed the love which God hath in us. God is love, and he that abides in love abides in God, and God abideth in him.

He who says that he is abiding in Him ought himself also to walk even as He walked.

He that loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no occasion of stumbling in him.

I wrote to you, fathers, because ye have known Him Who is from the beginning. I wrote to you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and ye have conquered the evil one.

And the world is passing away, and the desire thereof; but be that does the will of God abides forever.

And the Anointing which ye received from Him abideth in you, and ye have no need that anyone teach you; but as His Anointing teacheth you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as He taught you, ye abide in Him.

And now, little children, abide in Him; that, if He shall be manifested, we may have confidence, and not be put away from Him with shame at His coming.

Every one that is abiding in Him sins not; whosoever sins has not seen Him nor known Him.

Whosoever has been begotten of God sins not; 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 brethren. He that loves not abides in death.

Every one that hates his brother is a murderer; and ye know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

But whosoever possesses the goods of the world, and beholds his brother having need, and shuts up his compassion from him, how does the love of God abide in him?

And he that keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him; and in this we know that He abideth in us, by the Spirit Whom He gave to us.

In this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He hath given us of His Spirit.