1 John 3:11–24

¹¹For this is the message which ye have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another: ¹²not as Cain was of the wicked one, and slew his brother; and on account of what slew he him? because his works were wicked, and those of his brother righteous. ¹³Do not wonder, brethren, if the world hate you.

¹⁴We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother abides in death. ¹⁵Every one that hates his brother is a murderer, and ye know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. ¹⁶Hereby we have known love, because he has laid down his life for us; and we ought for the brethren to lay down our lives. ¹⁷But whoso may have the world’s substance, and see his brother having need, and shut up his bowels from him, how abides the love of God in him? ¹⁸Children, let us not love with word, nor with tongue, but in deed and in truth. ¹⁹And hereby we shall know that we are of the truth, and shall persuade our hearts before him—

²⁰that if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart and knows all things. ²¹Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have boldness towards God, ²²and whatsoever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments, and practise the things which are pleasing in his sight.

²³And this is his commandment, that we believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and that we love one another, even as he has given us commandment. ²⁴And he that keeps his commandments abides in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit which he has given to us.