2 Peter 2:21   (Read all of 2 Peter 2)

It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them.

2 Peter 3:18   (Read all of 2 Peter 3)

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever! Amen.

1 John 2:3   (Read all of 1 John 2)

We know that we have come to know him if we keep his commands.

1 John 2:4   (Read all of 1 John 2)

Whoever says, "I know him," but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person.

1 John 2:5   (Read all of 1 John 2)

But if anyone obeys his word, love for God is truly made complete in them. This is how we know we are in him:

1 John 2:11   (Read all of 1 John 2)

But anyone who hates a brother or sister is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness. They do not know where they are going, because the darkness has blinded them.

1 John 2:13   (Read all of 1 John 2)

I am writing to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one.

1 John 2:14   (Read all of 1 John 2)

I write to you, dear children, because you know the Father. I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God lives in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

1 John 2:18   (Read all of 1 John 2)

Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour.

1 John 2:20   (Read all of 1 John 2)

But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.

1 John 2:21   (Read all of 1 John 2)

I do not write to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it and because no lie comes from the truth.

1 John 2:29   (Read all of 1 John 2)

If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who does what is right has been born of him.

1 John 3:1   (Read all of 1 John 3)

See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

1 John 3:2   (Read all of 1 John 3)

Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

1 John 3:5   (Read all of 1 John 3)

But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin.

1 John 3:6   (Read all of 1 John 3)

No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.

1 John 3:10   (Read all of 1 John 3)

This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God's child, nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister.

1 John 3:14   (Read all of 1 John 3)

We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love each other. Anyone who does not love remains in death.

1 John 3:15   (Read all of 1 John 3)

Anyone who hates a brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.

1 John 3:16   (Read all of 1 John 3)

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 and sisters.

1 John 3:19   (Read all of 1 John 3)

This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence:

1 John 3:20   (Read all of 1 John 3)

If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.

1 John 3:24   (Read all of 1 John 3)

The one who keeps God's commands lives 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.

1 John 4:6   (Read all of 1 John 4)

We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit of truth and the spirit of falsehood.