All mercy, peace, and love be yours.
This is my command: Love each other.
If we obey what God has told us to do, then we are sure that we truly know God.
But when a person obeys God’s teaching, then God’s love has truly arrived at its goal in that person. This is how we know that we are following God:
We know that we have left death (sin) and have come into life. We know this because we love our brothers and sisters \{in Christ\}. The person who does not love is still in death.
And he (God) gave us this command: The person who loves God must also love his brothers and sisters \{in Christ\}.
