But whosoever keepeth his word, verily in him is the love of God perfected: by this we know that we are in him.

I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.

I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him, who is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.

Love not the world, neither the things which are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

My dear children, it is the last hour; and as ye have heard that antichrist is coming, even now there are many antichrists: by which we know it is the last hour.

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they departed, that they might be made manifest that they are not all of us:

These things have I written unto you concerning those who are leading you astray.

Beloved, now are we the children of God, and it is not yet evident what we shall be: but we know that when he shall appear, we shall be like him; because we shall see him as he is.

By this the children of God are manifestly seen, and the children of the devil. Every one that doth not practise righteousness, is not of God, and he that loveth not his brother.

We know that we are passed out of [a state of] death into life, because we love the brethren: he that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

and hereby we know that we are of the truth, and in his presence have this persuasion in our hearts.

And whatsoever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments, and do the things which are pleasing in his sight.

BELOVED, believe not every pretender to inspiration, but bring these spirits to the trial whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone forth into the world.

Ye are of God, my dear children, and have overcome them; because he that is in you is greater than he that is in the world.

They are of the world, therefore speak they as of the world, and the world heareth them.

We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth us not. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of delusion.

By this is his love towards us perfected, that we might have confidence at the day of judgment; because as he is, so are we in this world.

For this is the love of God, that we should keep his commandments: and his commandments are not burdensome.

For they are three who bear witness in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these, even the three, are one.

And there are three which bear witness upon earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood, and the three are for the same one object.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world is under the power of that wicked one.

But we know that the Son of God hath come, and hath given to us understanding, that we might know the true God; and we are in him that is true, in his Son Jesus the Messiah. HE is the true God, and the life eternal.