Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him because we will see Him as He is.

This is how we know that we love God’s children when we love God and obey His commands.

Look at how great a love the Father has given us that we should be called God’s children. And we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it didn’t know Him.

This is how God’s children—and the Devil’s children—are made evident.

Whoever does not do what is right is not of God, especially the one who does not love his brother.

If we accept the testimony of men, God’s testimony is greater, because it is God’s testimony that He has given about His Son.

God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent His One and Only Son into the world so that we might live through Him.

I have written to you, children,
because you have come to know the Father.
I have written to you, fathers,
because you have come to know
the One who is from the beginning.
I have written to you, young men,
because you are strong,
God’s word remains in you,
and you have had victory over the evil one.

And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and the one who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

You are from God, little children, and you have conquered them, because the One who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.