- This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
- And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
- We love because He first loved us.
- If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
- There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
- For everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.
- Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.
- Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.
- No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
- And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.
Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. 
