17. But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him?
18. Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
19. By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him;
20. for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything.
21. Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God;
22. and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.