The one who says he resides in God ought himself to walk just as Jesus walked.
Deliverance goes before him, and prepares a pathway for him.
Take my yoke on you and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
For I have given you an example – you should do just as I have done for you.
If you obey my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.
Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ.
and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.
For to this you were called, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving an example for you to follow in his steps.
And now, little children, remain in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink away from him in shame when he comes back.
The one who says “I have come to know God” and yet does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in such a person.
And the person who keeps his commandments resides in God, and God in him. Now by this we know that God resides in us: by the Spirit he has given us.
Everyone who resides in him does not sin; everyone who sins has neither seen him nor known him.
By this love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, because just as Jesus is, so also are we in this world.