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Someone may say, ‘I belong to God.’ But if he does not obey God's commands, that person is telling a lie. He is not living in the way that God's true message teaches us. But anyone who obeys God's message shows that he really loves God completely. So this is how we know that we belong to God. If we say that we are living in God's true way, then we must live in the way that Jesus lived.[a]

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  1. 2:6 If we believe in Jesus Christ and we trust God, this means that we belong to God. We are united with God and with Jesus. The way that we live shows whether we are true believers.