Cal3b on Nostr: The greatest fear any man should have is hearing Jesus declare "I never knew you". ...

The greatest fear any man should have is hearing Jesus declare "I never knew you".

This is something you can work on daily. Everyone sins, but it's the knowledge of it and what you do with that knowledge that matters. Repentance vs arrogance.

But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments.
- 1 Jn 2:1–3.

Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.
- 1 Jn 2:4–6.

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
- 1 Jn 2:15–17.

Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.
- 1 Jn 3:8.