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1 John 4:20–5:5

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Keeping God’s Commands

20If anyone says, “I love God,” yet hates his brother, vhe is a liar. wFor the person who does not love his brother xhe has seen cannot love the God he has not seen. y21And we have this command from Him: The one who loves God must also love his brother.

5Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Messiah has been born of God, zand everyone who loves the Father also loves the one born of Him. 2This is how we know that we love God’s children when we love God and obey aHis commands. 3For this is what love for God is: to keep His commands. Now His commands are not a burden, b4because whatever has been born of God conquers the world. This is the victory that has conquered the world: our faith. 5And who is the one who conquers the world cbut the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? d

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.

Footnotes

  1. y4:20 Other read has seen, how is he able to love … seen? (as a question)
  2. a5:2 Other read keep

Cross references

  1. v4:20 1Jn 2:9, 11; 3:15
  2. w4:20 1Jn 1:10
  3. x4:20 1Jn 2:10; 3:10, 14–17
  4. z5:1 1Jn 2:29
  5. b5:3 Dt 30:11; Mt 11:30; 23:4, 23
  6. c5:5 1Co 15:57; 2Pt 2:20
  7. d5:5 Jn 5:19; 14:1; Heb 1:2