1 John - ESV

And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

We love because he first loved us.

If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.

For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.

No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.