1. Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born from God. Whoever loves someone who is a parent loves the child born to the parent.
2. This is how we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep God’s commandments.
3. This is the love of God: we keep God’s commandments. God’s commandments are not difficult,
4. because everyone who is born from God defeats the world. And this is the victory that has defeated the world: our faith.
5. Who defeats the world? Isn’t it the one who believes that Jesus is God’s Son?