He who says that he is living in him, will do as he did.
Righteousness will go before him, making a way for his footsteps.
Take my yoke on you and become like me, for I am gentle and without pride, and you will have rest for your souls;
I have given you an example, so that you may do what I have done to you.
If you keep my laws, you will be ever in my love, even as I have kept my Father's laws, and am ever in his love.
So take me for your example, even as I take Christ for mine.
And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.
This is God's purpose for you: because Jesus himself underwent punishment for you, giving you an example, so that you might go in his footsteps:
And now, my children, keep your hearts in him; so that at his revelation, we may have no fear or shame before him at his coming.
The man who says, I have knowledge of him, and does not keep his laws, is false, and there is nothing true in him:
He who keeps his laws is in God and God is in him. And the Spirit which he gave us is our witness that he is in us.
Anyone who is in him does no sin; anyone who is a sinner has not seen him and has no knowledge of him.
In this way love is made complete in us, so that we may be without fear on the day of judging, because as he is, so are we in this world.