But God’s love has most certainly been perfected in whoever keeps his word. This is how we know that we are in him:
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 John 2:5 in context
1 John 2:2–8
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And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
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This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.
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One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.
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But God’s love has most certainly been perfected in whoever keeps his word. This is how we know that we are in him:
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he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.
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Brothers, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning.
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Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light already shines.
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