1 John 3:17-24

17If anyone has this world’s goods and sees a fellow believer in need but withholds compassion from him — how does God’s love reside in him?

18Little children, let us not love in word or speech, but in action and in truth.

19This is how we will know that we belong to the truth and will reassure our hearts before him

20whenever our hearts condemn us; for God is greater than our hearts, and he knows all things.

21Dear friends, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have confidence before God

22and receive whatever we ask from him because we keep his commands and do what is pleasing in his sight.

23Now this is his command: that we believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another as he commanded us.

24The one who keeps his commands remains in him, and he in him. And the way we know that he remains in us is from the Spirit he has given us.