This is how we may be sure we know him, by obeying his commands.

but whoever obeys his word, in him love to God is really complete. This is how we may be sure we are in him:

Children, it is the last hour. You have learned that 'Antichrist is coming.' Well, but many antichrists have appeared ??which makes us sure it is the last hour.

As you know he is just, be sure that everyone who practises righteousness is born of him.

Thus it is that we may be sure we belong to the truth and reassure ourselves

he who obeys his commands remains within him ??and He remains within him. And this is how we may be sure he remains within us, by means of the Spirit he has given us.

This is how we may be sure we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us a share in his own Spirit;

This is how we are sure that we love God's children, by loving God and obeying his commands

I have written in this way to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may be sure you have life eternal.