21. Dear friends, if our conscience does not condemn us, we have confidence in the presence of God,
22. and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing to him.
23. Now this is his commandment: that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he gave us the commandment.
24. And the person who keeps his commandments resides in God, and God in him. Now by this we know that God resides in us: by the Spirit he has given us.