God in 1 John

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1. 1:2

   And this is the life that was revealed; we have seen it and testified to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us.

2. 1:3

   We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And this fellowship of ours is with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ.

3. 1:5

   And this is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you: God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.

4. 2:1

   My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate before the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.

5. 2:5

   But if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him:

6. 2:13

   I am writing to you, fathers, because you know Him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I have written to you, children, because you know the Father.

7. 2:14

   I have written to you, fathers, because you know Him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

8. 2:15

   Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

9. 2:16

   For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world.

10. 2:17

    The world is passing away, along with its desires; but whoever does the will of God remains forever.

11. 2:22

    Who is the liar, if it is not the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, who denies the Father and the Son.

12. 2:23

    Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father, but whoever confesses the Son has the Father as well.

13. 2:24

    As for you, let what you have heard from the beginning remain in you. If it does, you will also remain in the Son and in the Father.

14. 3:1

    Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.

15. 3:2

    Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is.

16. 3:8

    The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil.

17. 3:9

    Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.

18. 3:10

    By this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil: Anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is anyone who does not love his brother.

19. 3:16

    By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

20. 3:17

    If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him?

21. 3:20

    Even if our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts, and He knows all things.

22. 3:21

    Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God,

23. 4:1

    Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.

24. 4:2

    By this you will know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,

25. 4:3

    and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and which is already in the world at this time.

26. 4:4

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

27. 4:6

    We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. That is how we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deception.

28. 4:7

    Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

29. 4:8

    Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

30. 4:9

    This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.

31. 4:10

    And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

32. 4:11

    Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

33. 4:12

    No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.

34. 4:14

    And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent His Son to be the Savior of the world.

35. 4:15

    If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

36. 4:16

    And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

37. 4:20

    If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

38. 4:21

    And we have this commandment from Him: Whoever loves God must love his brother as well.

39. 5:1

    Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves those born of Him.

40. 5:2

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

41. 5:3

    For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,

42. 5:4

    because everyone born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.

43. 5:5

    Who then overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.

44. 5:7

    For there are three that testify:

45. 5:9

    Even if we accept human testimony, the testimony of God is greater. For this is the testimony that God has given about His Son.

46. 5:10

    Whoever believes in the Son of God has this testimony within him; whoever does not believe God has made Him out to be a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given about His Son.

47. 5:11

    And this is that testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.

48. 5:12

    Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.

49. 5:13

    I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.

50. 5:18

    We know that anyone born of God does not keep on sinning; the One who was born of God protects him, and the evil one cannot touch him.

51. 5:19

    We know that we are of God, and that the whole world is under the power of the evil one.

52. 5:20

    And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true—in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.