See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be
called the children of God--and such we indeed are. The reason why the
world does not recognize us is that it did not recognize him. Beloved,
even as things are we are children of God, and it has not yet been
made clear what we shal... [ Continue Reading ]
Anyone who rests this hope on him purifies himself as he is pure.
Anyone who commits sin commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.
And you know that he appeared that he might take away our sins and
there is no sin in him. Anyone who abides in him does not sin. Anyone
who sins has not seen him, an... [ Continue Reading ]
In this the children of God and the children of the devil are made
plain; anyone who does not do righteousness is not of God, and neither
is he who does not love his brother, because the message that we have
heard from the beginning is the message that we should love one
another, that we should not... [ Continue Reading ]
a By this we know that we are of the truth, and by this we will
reassure our heart before him, when our heart condemns us in anything,
for God is greater than our hearts and knows all things. Beloved, if
our heart does not condemn us, we can come confidently to God and
receive from him whatever we a... [ Continue Reading ]