14:23 Jesus said to him in answer, If anyone has love for me, he will keep my words: and he will be dear to my Father; and we will come to him and make our living-place with him. 14:24 He who has no love for me does not keep my words; and the word which you are hearing is not my word but the Father's who sent me.

1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us. 1:9 If we say openly that we have done wrong, he is upright and true to his word, giving us forgiveness of sins and making us clean from all evil. 1:10 If we say that we have no sin, we make him false and his word is not in us.

2:3 And by this we may be certain that we have knowledge of him, if we keep his laws. 2:4 The man who says, I have knowledge of him, and does not keep his laws, is false, and there is nothing true in him: 2:5 But in every man who keeps his word, the love of God is made complete. By this we may be certain that we are in him: 2:6 He who says that he is living in him, will do as he did. 2:7 My loved ones, I do not give you a new law, but an old law which you had from the first; this old law is the word which came to your ears. 2:8 Again, I give you a new law, which is true in him and in you; for the night is near its end and the true light is even now shining out. 2:9 He who says that he is in the light, and has hate in his heart for his brother, is still in the dark.