3:13 Therefore do not be surprised, brothers and sisters, ¹  if the world hates you. ²  3:14 We know that ³  we have crossed over ⁴  from death to life ⁵  because ⁶  we love our fellow Christians. ⁷  The one who does not love remains in death. ⁸  3:15 Everyone who hates his fellow Christian ⁹  is a murderer, ¹⁰  and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing ¹¹  in him. 3:16 We have come to know love by this: ¹²  that Jesus ¹³  laid down ¹⁴  his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians. 3:17 But whoever has the world’s possessions ¹⁵  and sees his fellow Christian ¹⁶  in need and shuts off his compassion against him, how can the love of God ¹⁷  reside ¹⁸  in such a person? ¹⁹ 

3:18 Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue but in deed and truth. ²⁰  3:19 And by this ²¹  we will know that we are of the truth and will convince ²²  our conscience ²³  in his presence, ²⁴  3:20 that ²⁵  if our conscience condemns ²⁶  us, that ²⁷  God is greater than our conscience and knows all things. 3:21 Dear friends, if our conscience does not condemn us, we have confidence in the presence of God, 3:22 and ²⁸  whatever we ask we receive from him, because ²⁹  we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing to him. 3:23 Now ³⁰  this is his commandment: ³¹  that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he gave ³²  us the commandment. 3:24 And the person who keeps his commandments resides ³³  in God, ³⁴  and God ³⁵  in him. Now by this ³⁶  we know that God ³⁷  resides in us: by the Spirit he has given us.