1 John 2:4-7

4Someone 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.

5But anyone who obeys God's message shows that he really loves God completely. So this is how we know that we belong to God.

6If we say that we are living in God's true way, then we must live in the way that Jesus lived.

7My friends, I am telling you to love one another. When I write this to you, I am not giving you a new rule. It is an old rule that you have had for a long time. We gave it to you when you began to obey Christ. It is the same message that you have already heard.