⁵ but whoever keeps his word, in him verily the love of God is perfected. Hereby we know that we are in him.

⁶ He that says he abides in him ought, even as *he* walked, himself also [so] to walk.

⁷ Beloved, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment, which ye have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye heard.