003:016 We know what love is--through Christ's having laid down His
life on our behalf; and in the same way we ought to lay
down our lives for our brother men.
003:017 But if any one has this world's wealth and sees that his
brother man is in need, and yet hardens his heart against him--
how can such a one continue to love God?
003:018 Dear children, let us not love in words only nor with the lips,
but in deed and in truth.
003:019 And in this way we shall come to know that we are loyal to
the truth, and shall satisfy our consciences in His presence
003:020 in whatever matters our hearts condemn us--because God is
greater than our hearts and knows everything.
003:021 Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have perfect
confidence towards God;
003:022 and whatever we ask for we obtain from Him, because we obey His
commands and do the things which are pleasing in His sight.
003:023 And this is His command--that we are to believe in
His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as He has
commanded us to do.
003:024 The man who obeys His commands continues in union with God,
and God continues in union with him; and through His Spirit whom
He has given us we can know that He continues in union with us.
004:001 Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but put the spirits
to the test to see whether they are from God; for many false
teachers have gone out into the world.
004:002 The test by which you may recognize the Spirit of God is
that every spirit which acknowledges that Jesus Christ has
come as man is from God,
004:003 and that no spirit is from God which does not acknowledge
this about Jesus. Such is the spirit of the anti-Christ;