35 By this all people will know that you are My disciples, if you have love(A) for one another.”

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35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”(A)

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But whoever keeps His word,(A) truly in him the love of God is perfected.[a] This is how we know we are in Him:(B)

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  1. 1 John 2:5 Or truly completed

But if anyone obeys his word,(A) love for God[a] is truly made complete in them.(B) This is how we know(C) we are in him:

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  1. 1 John 2:5 Or word, God’s love

19 This is how we will know we belong to the truth(A) and will convince our conscience in His presence,

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19 This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence:

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24 The one who keeps His commands remains in Him,(A) and He in him. And the way we know that He remains in us(B) is from the Spirit(C) He has given us.

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24 The one who keeps God’s commands(A) lives in him,(B) and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.(C)

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This is how you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has[a] come in the flesh(A) is from God.(B)

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  1. 1 John 4:2 Or confesses Jesus to be the Christ

This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh(A) is from God,(B)

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We are from God. Anyone who knows God listens to us;(A) anyone who is not from God does not listen to us. From this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deception.(B)

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We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us.(A) This is how we recognize the Spirit[a] of truth(B) and the spirit of falsehood.(C)

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  1. 1 John 4:6 Or spirit

13 This is how we know that we remain in Him(A) and He in us: He has given assurance to us from His Spirit.(B)

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13 This is how we know(A) that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit.(B)

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This is how we know that we love God’s children when we love God and obey[a] His commands.

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  1. 1 John 5:2 Other mss read keep

This is how we know(A) that we love the children of God:(B) by loving God and carrying out his commands.

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