By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep His commandments.

But love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For He is kind to the unthankful and evil.

The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,

and if children, then heirs; heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.

Therefore be imitators of God as beloved children.

The field is the world, the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the wicked one.

You are of the devil as your father, and the lusts of your father you purpose to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own, for he is a liar and the father of it.

and said, O full of all deceit and all mischief, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease perverting the right ways of the Lord?

Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who produces righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous.

He who produces sin is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this, the Son of God was made known, that He might destroy the works of the devil.

If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who produces righteousness is born of Him.

and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not from God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the Spirit of Truth and the spirit of error.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in wickedness.

He who is of God hears God's Words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God.

Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God, but he who does evil has not seen God.

We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother remains in death.

Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

He who says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness until now.

He who loves his brother abides in the light, and there is nothing in him to cause stumbling.

He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God also loves his brother.