1 John 2:5 meaning and explanation
But if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him:
1 John 2:5, Berean Standard Bible
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In this letter the elderly John is writing to a congregation troubled by teachers who had split from them, and he tests genuine knowledge of God by obedient love. Here he contrasts the person who merely claims to know God with the one who keeps His word, meaning the message about Jesus and the command to love one another.
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