Stop loving the world and the things that are in the world. If anyone persists in loving the world, the Father's love is not in him.

Dearly beloved, let us practice loving one another, because love originates with God, and everyone who practices loving is a child of God and knows God by experience.

If any one may say, I love God with divine love, and may hate his brother, he is a liar: for the one not loving his brother whom he has seen, with divine love, is not able to love God, whom he has not seen, with divine love.

We know that we have passed out of the death into the life, because we love the brethren with divine love; the one loving not with divine love, abides in the death.

And we have this precept from him, that the one loving God with divine love also loves his brother with divine love.

Every one believing that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God: and every one loving with divine love him who begat, also loves him who has been begotten of him, with divine love.

The one not loving with divine love does not know God; because God is divine love.

Dear children, let us stop loving with words or lips alone, but let us love with actions and in truth.

No one has ever seen God; yet if we practice loving one another, God remains in union with us, and our love for Him attains perfection in our hearts,

The one loving his brother with divine love abides in the light, and there is no stumbling in him.

In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: every one not doing righteousness is not of God, and the one not loving his brother with divine love.

His command is this, that we should believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ and practice loving one another, just as He commanded us to do.

Because, this, is the message which ye have heard from the beginning - that we should be loving one another, -

We have the power of loving, because he first had love for us.

and we can be assured of receiving from God whatever we ask Him for, because we are obeying His commands [i.e., especially the one about loving others] and are practicing what is pleasing to Him.

The love consists not in our having loved God, but in his loving us and sending his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

This is how we can be sure that we love the children of God: it is by loving God and obeying his commands.

For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.