003:015 Every one who hates his brother man is a murderer; and you know that no murderer has the Life of the Ages continuing in him. 003:016 We know what love is--through Christ's having laid down His life on our behalf; and in the same way we ought to lay down our lives for our brother men. 003:017 But if any one has this world's wealth and sees that his brother man is in need, and yet hardens his heart against him-- how can such a one continue to love God? 003:018 Dear children, let us not love in words only nor with the lips, but in deed and in truth. 003:019 And in this way we shall come to know that we are loyal to the truth, and shall satisfy our consciences in His presence 003:020 in whatever matters our hearts condemn us--because God is greater than our hearts and knows everything. 003:021 Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have perfect confidence towards God; 003:022 and whatever we ask for we obtain from Him, because we obey His commands and do the things which are pleasing in His sight. 003:023 And this is His command--that we are to believe in His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as He has commanded us to do. 003:024 The man who obeys His commands continues in union with God, and God continues in union with him; and through His Spirit whom He has given us we can know that He continues in union with us. 004:001 Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but put the spirits to the test to see whether they are from God; for many false teachers have gone out into the world. 004:002 The test by which you may recognize the Spirit of God is that every spirit which acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come as man is from God, 004:003 and that no spirit is from God which does not acknowledge this about Jesus. Such is the spirit of the anti-Christ; of whose coming you have heard, and it is already in the world. 004:004 As for you, dear children, you are God's children, and have successfully resisted them; for greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world. 004:005 They are the world's children, and so their language is that of the world, and the world listens to them. We are God's children. 004:006 The man who is beginning to know God listens to us, but he who is not a child of God does not listen to us. By this test we can distinguish the Spirit of truth from the spirit of error. 004:007 Dear friends, let us love one another; for love has its origin in God, and every one who loves has become a child of God and is beginning to know God. 004:008 He who is destitute of love has never had any knowledge of God; because God is love.