Thematic Bible: Who loves God’s children

Every person who believes that Jesus is the Christ [i.e., God's specially chosen one] has been [spiritually] conceived [and eventually born] by God. And everyone who [continually] loves God, who did the conceiving, also [must continually] love the person whom God has [spiritually] conceived. This is [one] way we know that we love God's [spiritually reborn] children: [It is] when we love God and obey what He commands us to do.