1 John 3:18-24

18 ¹Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and ²truth.

19 We will know by this that we are ³of the truth, and will assure our heart before Him

20 in whatever * * our heart condemns us; for God is greater than our heart and knows all things.

21 ⁴Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have ⁵confidence before God;

22 and ⁶whatever * we ask we receive from Him, because we ⁷keep His commandments and do ⁸the things that are pleasing in His sight.

23 This is His commandment, that we ⁹believe in ¹⁰the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as ¹¹He commanded * us.

24 The one who ¹²keeps His commandments ¹³abides in Him, and He in him. ¹⁴We know by this that ¹⁵He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.

Cross References

• 1. 1 John 2:1; 1 John 3:7
• 2. 2 John 1; 3 John 1
• 3. 1 John 2:21
• 4. 1 John 3:2
• 5. 1 John 2:28; 1 John 5:14
• 6. Job 22:26; Matthew 7:7; Matthew 21:22; John 9:31
• 7. 1 John 2:3
• 8. John 8:29; Hebrews 13:21
• 9. John 6:29
• 10. John 1:12; John 2:23; John 3:18
• 11. John 13:34; John 15:12; 1 John 2:8
• 12. 1 John 2:3
• 13. John 6:56; John 10:38; 1 John 2:6, 24; 1 John 4:15
• 14. John 14:17; Rom 8:9, 14, 16; 1 Thessalonians 4:8; 1 John 4:13
• 15. 1 John 2:5

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "persuade"
• [b]. Or "that if our heart condemns us, that God..."
• [c]. Lit "toward"
• [d]. Or "believe the name"
• [e]. Lit "gave us a commandment"