Little children, let no one deceive you. The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous.
This is how God’s children and the devil’s children become obvious. Whoever does not do what is right is not of God, especially the one who does not love his brother or sister.
For this is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another,
unlike Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s were righteous.
We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers and sisters. The one who does not love remains in death.
Everyone who hates his brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.
This is how we have come to know love: He laid down his life for us. We should also lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.
This is how we will know that we belong to the truth and will reassure our hearts before him
whenever our hearts condemn us; for God is greater than our hearts, and he knows all things.
and receive whatever we ask from him because we keep his commands and do what is pleasing in his sight.
Now this is his command: that we believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another as he commanded us.
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