1 John 1:5

God Is Light, So We Must Walk in the Light

1:5 Now this is the gospel message we have heard from him and announce to you: God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.

1 John 2:5

2:5 But whoever obeys his word, truly in this person the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in him.

1 John 2:17

2:17 And the world is passing away with all its desires, but the person who does the will of God remains forever.

1 John 4:1

Testing the Spirits

4:1 Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to determine if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

1 John 4:4

4:4 You are from God, little children, and have conquered them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

1 John 4:10

4:10 In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

1 John 4:13

4:13 By this we know that we reside in God and he in us: in that he has given us of his Spirit.

1 John 4:21--5:1

4:21 And the commandment we have from him is this: that the one who loves God should love his fellow Christian too. 5:1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been fathered by God, and everyone who loves the father loves the child fathered by him.

1 John 5:4-5

5:4 because everyone who has been fathered by God conquers the world.

Testimony About the Son

This is the conquering power that has conquered the world: our faith. 5:5 Now who is the person who has conquered the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

1 John 5:12-13

5:12 The one who has the Son has this eternal life; the one who does not have the Son of God does not have this eternal life.

Assurance of Eternal Life

5:13 I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.