1 John 4:20

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.

Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God. He has seen the Father.

One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

He alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness even until now.

Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,

For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don’t confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

“ ‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?

All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’

But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”

Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.

What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

If we say that we haven’t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

But God’s love has most certainly been perfected in whoever keeps his word. This is how we know that we are in him:

Whoever remains in him doesn’t sin. Whoever sins hasn’t seen him and doesn’t know him.

Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him, and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.

and every spirit who doesn’t confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God, and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already.

By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so we are in this world.

Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire stone, like the skies for clearness.

I will tell of the decree: Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

Turning to the disciples, he said, “All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him.”

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.

Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don’t receive our witness.

No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.

I am one who testifies about myself, and the Father who sent me testifies about me.”

I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.

Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed.”

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity, that they may be without excuse.

For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour.

For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”

for we walk by faith, not by sight.

By faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. Then you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.”

If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don’t tell the truth.

Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.

for I was hungry, and you didn’t give me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink;

He answered them, “He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise.”

But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and God’s love. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.

But I know you, that you don’t have God’s love in yourselves.

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.

Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,