10. In this the children of Elohim and the children of the devil are manifest: Everyone not doing righteousness is not of Elohim, neither the one not loving his brother.
11. Because this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another,
12. not as Qayin who was of the wicked one and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because his works were wicked but those of his brother were righteous.
13. Do not marvel, my brothers, if the world hates you.
14. We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. The one not loving his brother stays in death.
15. Everyone hating his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has everlasting life staying in him.
16. By this we have known love, because He laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
17. But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his tender affections from him, how does the love of Elohim stay in him?
18. My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.
19. And by this we know that we are of the truth, and shall set our hearts at rest before Him,
20. that if our heart condemns us, Elohim is greater than our heart, and knows all.
21. Beloved ones, if our heart does not condemn us, we have boldness toward Elohim.
22. And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we guard His commands and do what is pleasing in His sight.
23. And this is His command, that we should believe in the Name of His Son יהושע Messiah and love one another, as He gave us command.