His faith worketh by love, Galatians 5:6; his love is perfected, and attains its end in obedience, whereof it is the vital principle, 1 John 5:3 1 Thessalonians 14:15. Such an efficacious governing knowledge of him, therefore, as, by the power of the love which it produces, subdues our souls to the obedience of him, is a certain proof to us of our union with him, 1 John 5:20, and relation to him.
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1 John 2:5
5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.