but whoever obeys his message really has the love of God in perfection in his heart. This is the way we can be sure that we are in union with him;

whoever says, "I am always in union with him" must live just as he lived.

Keep what you have heard from the beginning in your hearts; then you will always be in union with the Son and the Father.

You still retain in your hearts the anointing with the Spirit that you received from him, and you do not need to have anyone teach you. But just as that anointing of his teaches you about everything, and as it is true and no falsehood, keep in union with him just as it has taught you to do.

Now, dear children, keep in union with him, so that if he appears, we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame when he comes.

No one who keeps in union with him sins. Anyone who sins has never seen him or come to know him.

All who obey his commands keep in union with him, and he does with them; and this is how we know that he keeps in union with us??y the Spirit which he has given us.

No one has ever seen God; yet if we love one another, God keeps in union with us and love for him attains perfection in our hearts.

This is the way we know that we keep in union with him and he does with us??ecause he has given us some of his Spirit.

If anyone acknowledges that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, God keeps in union with him and he with God.

So we know and believe in the love God has for us. God is love, and whoever continues to love keeps in union with God, and God with him.

And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us power to recognize him who is true; and we are in union with him who is true, through his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.