14. We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers. Whoever does not love remains in death.
15. Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.
16. The way we came to know love was that he laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
17. If someone who has worldly means sees a brother in need and refuses him compassion, how can the love of God remain in him?
18. Children, let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth.
19. [Now] this is how we shall know that we belong to the truth and reassure our hearts before him
20. in whatever our hearts condemn, for God is greater than our hearts and knows everything.
21. Beloved, if [our] hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence in God
22. and receive from him whatever we ask, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.
23. And his commandment is this: we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another just as he commanded us.
24. Those who keep his commandments remain in him, and he in them, and the way we know that he remains in us is from the Spirit that he gave us.