And the world passes away, and the lust of it, but he who does the will of God abides into the age.

[But] the person who continues to live a sinful life belongs to the devil, because the devil has continued to sin since the beginning [See Gen. 3]. For this is the reason that the Son of God came [into the world]; it was to destroy the works [i.e., the influence of] the devil [in people's lives].

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not abideth in death.

My dear children, let us put our love not into words or into talk but into deeds, and make it real.

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

And every spirit who confesseth not that Jesus the Messiah is come into the world, is not from God: and this is that spirit of antichrist which ye have heard that it is coming, and now is already in the world.

In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

There is no fear in love [dread does not exist]. But perfect (complete, full-grown) love drives out fear, because fear involves [the expectation of divine] punishment, so the one who is afraid [of God’s judgment] is not perfected in love [has not grown into a sufficient understanding of God’s love].

and three are who are testifying in the earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood, and the three are into the one.