1. Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Messiah has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves the one born of Him.
2. This is how we know that we love God’s children when we love God and obey His commands.
3. For this is what love for God is: to keep His commands. Now His commands are not a burden,
4. because whatever has been born of God conquers the world. This is the victory that has conquered the world: our faith.
5. And who is the one who conquers the world but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?