No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us.

But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him.

Do you see that faith was working together with his works, and by works faith was made perfect?

And now, little children, abide in Him, that when He appears, we may have confidence and not be ashamed before Him at His coming.

And by this we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before Him.

Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence toward God.

For judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

"Assuredly, I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!

"But I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you.

"But I say to you that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for you."

"But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.

[then] the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment,

But the heavens and the earth [which] are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

"It is enough for a disciple that he be like his teacher, and a servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more [will they call] those of his household!

"Remember the word that I said to you, 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also.

For whom He foreknew, He also predestined [to be] conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.

looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of [our] faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls.

having a good conscience, that when they defame you as evildoers, those who revile your good conduct in Christ may be ashamed.

For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit,

Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind, for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

For we [have spent] enough of our past lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles -- when we walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries.