THIS IS HOW WE KNOW

from 1. John

No one who is born of God will continue to sin, 

because God's seed remains in him; 

he cannot go on sinning, 

because he has been born of God. 

This is how we know  

who the children of God are 

and who the children of the devil are: 

Anyone who does not do what is right 

is not a child of God; 

nor is anyone who does not love his brother.

This is how we know 

what love is: 

Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. 

And we ought to lay down 
our lives for our brothers. 

If anyone has material possessions 

and sees his brother in need 

but has no pity on him, 

how can the love of God be in him? 

Dear children, 

let us not love with words or tongue 

but with actions and in truth.

This then is how we know 

that we belong to the truth, 

and how we set our hearts at rest 
in his presence 

whenever our hearts condemn us. 

For God is greater than our hearts, 

and he knows everything!

Dear friends,
if our hearts do not condemn us, 

we have confidence before God 

and receive from him anything we ask, 

because we obey his commands

and do what pleases him. 

And this is his command: 

to believe in the name of his Son,

Jesus Christ, 

and to love one another
as he commanded us. 

Those who obey his commands
live in him, 

and he in them.

And


this is how we know 
that he lives in us:

We know it by the Spirit he gave us.