Quotes About Truth

Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father, but whoever confesses the Son has the Father as well.

As for you, let what you have heard from the beginning remain in you. If it does, you will also remain in the Son and in the Father.

And this is the promise that He Himself made to us: eternal life.

I have written these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you.

And as for you, the anointing you received from Him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But just as His true and genuine anointing teaches you about all things, so remain in Him as you have been taught.

If you know that He is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.

Everyone who practices sin practices lawlessness as well. Indeed, sin is lawlessness.

Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Christ is righteous.

The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil.

So do not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you.

Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.

And by this we will know that we belong to the truth, and will assure our hearts in His presence:

Even if our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts, and He knows all things.

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.

By this you will know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,

and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and which is already in the world at this time.

They are of the world. That is why they speak from the worldís perspective, and the world listens to them.

We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. That is how we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deception.

If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

Who then overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.

This is the One who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ—not by water alone, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies to this, because the Spirit is the truth.

For there are three that testify:

the Spirit, the water, and the blood—and these three are in agreement.