Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him.
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I came not of my own accord, but he sent me.
If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death.
Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;
For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.
No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God.
Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also.
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.
because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
Whoever hates me hates my Father also.
And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,
Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.”
Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?
And as they were going along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “See, here is water! What prevents me from being baptized?”
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