²⁰Whoever says, “I love God,” but hates another believer is a liar. People who don’t love other believers, whom they have seen, can’t love God, whom they have not seen. ²¹Christ has given us this commandment: The person who loves God must also love other believers.

5TH CHAPTER

Those Who Believe in Jesus Are God’s Children

¹Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Messiah has been born from God. Everyone who loves the Father also loves his children. ²We know that we love God’s children when we love God by obeying his commandments. ³To love God means that we obey his commandments. Obeying his commandments isn’t difficult ⁴because everyone who has been born from God has won the victory over the world. Our faith is what wins the victory over the world. ⁵Who wins the victory over the world? Isn’t it the person who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

Read in Logos

1 John 5:4: For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.