"My little children, I write to you, that you may not sin. But if anyone sins, we have an intercessor with the FATHER, JESUS CHRIST, the Just One. HE is the sacrificial victim, for our sins, and the sins of the whole world.
How can we know that we know HIM? If we fulfill HIS commands.
If you say, 'I know HIM,' but do not fulfill HIS commands, you are a liar, and the truth is not in you. But if you keep HIS word, GOD's love is made complete in you. This is how we know that we are in HIM: he who claims to live in HIM must live as HE lived." - 1 John 2:1-6
(The second criterion for love of GOD: to obey the commandments that are summarized in love. Do we perhaps pretend to know GOD and to believe? If so, it must be measured by the love we have for others.
An old commandment, because it is the first one we learned in the Church; a new commandment, because the world must constantly, and in new ways, discover the power of love.)
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