How to Experience Closeness to God
According To I John
Practicing the Presence of God
| 2:5-6 | "how we know we are in him: ... walk as Jesus did." |
| 2:24 | If "what you have heard from the beginning remains in you", "you ... will remain in the Son and in the Father." |
| 2:27 | the Holy Spirit teaches us to remain in him. |
| 2:28 | "continue in him, so that when he appears we may be confident and unashamed before him" |
| 3:6 | "no one who lives in him keeps on sinning." |
| 3:24 | "those who obey his commands live in him, and he in them." |
| 3:24 | "this is how we know that he lives in us: we know it by the Spirit he gave us." |
| 4:13 | "we know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit." |
| 4:15 | "if anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God." |
| 4:16 | "whoever lives in love lives in God and God in him." |
| 5:11 | eternal life is in God's Son |
| 5:20 | "we are in him [God] who is true - even in his Son Jesus Christ." |
| Also See John 15:1-17 Colossians 2:6-7 |
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