11 For this is the message you heard
from the beginning: We should love one another.
12 Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and
murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were
evil and his brother’s were righteous.
13 Do not be surprised, my brothers and sisters, if the
world hates you.
14 We know that we
have passed from death to life, because we love each other. Anyone who does not
love remains in death.
15 Anyone who
hates a brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has
eternal life residing in him.
16 This is how we know what love
is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives
for our brothers and sisters.
17 If
anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no
pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person?
18 Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but
with actions and in truth.
19 This is how we know that we
belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence:
20 If our hearts condemn us, we know that
God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.
21 Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have
confidence before God
22 and receive
from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him.
23 And this is his command: to believe
in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded
us.
24 The one who keeps God’s
commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in
us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.
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