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Anyone who says, “I know him,” but doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar. People like that have no truth in them. But if anyone keeps his word, God’s love is truly made complete in such a person. This is how we are sure that we are in him: anyone who says, “I abide in him,” ought to behave in the same way that he behaved.

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Whoever says, “I know him,”(A) but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person.(B) But if anyone obeys his word,(C) love for God[a] is truly made complete in them.(D) This is how we know(E) we are in him: Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 John 2:5 Or word, God’s love