²⁰Anyone who says he loves God but in fact hates his brother or sister is a liar. He doesn’t love his brother or sister, whom he has seen. So he can’t love God, whom he has not seen.

²¹Here is the command God has given us. Anyone who loves God must also love his brothers and sisters.

Faith in the Son of God

5Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born again because of what God has done. And everyone who loves the Father loves his children as well.

²How do we know that we love God’s children? We know it when we love God and obey his commands. ³Here is what it means to love God. It means that we obey his commands. And his commands are not hard to obey. ⁴That’s because everyone who is a child of God has won the battle over the world. Our faith has won the battle for us.

⁵Who is it that has won the battle over the world? Only 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.