but, whenever a man lays his Message to heart, in that man the love of God has indeed reached its perfection. By this we know that we are in union with God--

He who professes to maintain union with God is himself bound to live as Christ lived.

As for you, let what you were told at the first be always in your thoughts. If, then, what you were told at the first is always in your thoughts, you yourselves will maintain your union both with the Son and with the Father.

But you--you still retain in your hears that consecration which you received from the Christ, and are not in need of any one to teach you; but, since his consecration of you teaches you about everything, and since it is a real consecration, and no lie, then, as it has taught you, maintain your union with him.

Yes, my Children, maintain your union with Christ, so that, whenever he appears, our confidence may not fail us, and we may not be ashamed to meet him at his coming.

No one who maintains union with him lives in sin; no one who lives in sin has ever really seen him or learned to know him.

And he who lays his commands to heart maintains union with Christ, and Christ with him. And by this we know that Christ maintains union with us--by our possession of the Spirit which he gave us.

No human eyes have ever seen God, yet, if we love one another, God remains in union with us, and his love attains its perfection in us.

We know that we remain in union with him, and he with us, by this--by his having given us some measure of his Spirit.

Whoever acknowledges that Jesus Christ is the Son of God--God remains in union with that man, and he with God.

We realize, too, that the Son of God has come among us, and has given us the discernment to know the True God; and we are in union with the True God by our union with his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the True God and he is Immortal Life.