5. Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,
6. the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them-- the LORD, who remains faithful forever.
7. He upholds the cause of the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets prisoners free,
8. the LORD gives sight to the blind, the LORD lifts up those who are bowed down, the LORD loves the righteous.
9. The LORD watches over the alien and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.
10. The LORD reigns forever, your God, O Zion, for all generations. Praise the LORD.
16. This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
17. If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
18. Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.
19. This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence
20. whenever our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.
21. Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God
22. and receive from him anything we ask, because we obey his commands and do what pleases him.
23. And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.
24. Those who obey his commands live in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.
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