Who, then, is the liar? It is those who say that Jesus is not the Messiah. Such people are the Enemy of Christ---they reject both the Father and the Son.

For those who reject the Son reject also the Father; those who accept the Son have the Father also.

This is how you will be able to know whether it is God's Spirit: anyone who acknowledges that Jesus Christ came as a human being has the Spirit who comes from God.

And we have seen and tell others that the Father sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.

If we declare that Jesus is the Son of God, we live in union with God and God lives in union with us.

Simon Peter answered, "You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God."

Some, however, did receive him and believed in him; so he gave them the right to become God's children.

They did not become God's children by natural means, that is, by being born as the children of a human father; God himself was their Father.

And now we believe and know that you are the Holy One who has come from God."

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If you confess that Jesus is Lord and believe that God raised him from death, you will be saved.

For it is by our faith that we are put right with God; it is by our confession that we are saved.

because every child of God is able to defeat the world. And we win the victory over the world by means of our faith.

You know that Christ is righteous; you should know, then, that everyone who does what is right is God's child.

Those who are children of God do not continue to sin, for God's very nature is in them; and because God is their Father, they cannot continue to sin.

Dear friends, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Whoever loves is a child of God and knows God.

If we love others, we live in the light, and so there is nothing in us that will cause someone else to sin.

We know that we have left death and come over into life; we know it because we love others. Those who do not love are still under the power of death.

If we are rich and see others in need, yet close our hearts against them, how can we claim that we love God?

If we say we love God, but hate others, we are liars. For we cannot love God, whom we have not seen, if we do not love others, whom we have seen.

Whoever hates me hates my Father also.

By his own will he brought us into being through the word of truth, so that we should have first place among all his creatures.

Let us give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! Because of his great mercy he gave us new life by raising Jesus Christ from death. This fills us with a living hope,

Now that by your obedience to the truth you have purified yourselves and have come to have a sincere love for other believers, love one another earnestly with all your heart.

For through the living and eternal word of God you have been born again as the children of a parent who is immortal, not mortal.