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But John is telling us this.

Beloved:
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is begotten by God,
and everyone who loves the Father
loves also the one begotten by him.
In this way we know that we love the children of God
when we love God and obey his commandments.
For the love of God is this,
that we keep his commandments.
And his commandments are not burdensome,
for whoever is begotten by God conquers the world.
And the victory that conquers the world is our faith.
Who indeed is the victor over the world
but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

This is the one who came through water and blood, Jesus Christ,
not by water alone, but by water and blood.
The Spirit is the one that testifies,
and the Spirit is truth.

It is God Who is in you, in your spirit, as the earnest of your inheritance, not a puppetmaster. Do you break any commandment, ever? Even as a Christian, saved by The Blood of Christ, you will transgress The Law. God has given us a way to deal with that law violation. It is HIG law, so when we violtae HIS law we go to HIM for forgiveness, and He is faithful and just to forgive us and restore the joy of our salvation.

When this very same issue group came up in the early Church, regarding the gentile believers whom the Judaizers were trying to put under the law after they accepted Jesus as their Savior, what did the Jerusalem Church of Jewish believers write to the gentile believers?