If anyone has material possessions and sees a fellow believer in need but has no pity on him, how can that person claim to know God and have the love of God in him? Let us not love with tongues but with actions and truth. Again I say: Let us love with actions. Let us love with God’s truth. 1 John 3:17-18
God is greater than our hearts. God knows everything. 1 John 3:20
If our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from him anything we ask. This is because we obey his commands and do what pleases him. 1 John 3:21-22
These are God’s commands:
1) Believe in the name of the Son, Jesus Christ.
2) Love all fellow believers as God commands. Love all always. 1 John 3:23
Those who obey God’s commands, live in him and he lives in them. 1 John 3:24
This is how we know that God lives in us: We know it by the Spirt he gave us. 1 John 3:29
Sacrifice is the Holy Spirit’s ultimate expression of love. Oswald Chambers