1 John 2:5 But he who keeps (treasures) His Word [who bears in mind His precepts, who observes His message in its entirety], truly in him has the love of and for God been perfected (completed, reached maturity). By this we may perceive (know, recognize, and be sure) that we are in Him: AMPC

How does this emphatic translation compare to other translations?

But whoso keepeth His Word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in Him. KJ21

but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: ESV

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

I have to admit the AMPC, the Classic Amplified bible, is emphatic in its version of 1 John 2:5. What I see is an expression of depth of relationship. It is almost not enough to say I love God. A simple word cannot fully express the depth of anyone’s love. Here we are not speaking about our love for God but rather His love in us. That abiding love of God.

John 15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.

God is love, so therefore if you abide in Christ, you abide in His love. Simple enough, yet to say I love is inadequate to express that reality. So how can we fully express perfect love in this imperfect form, our own humanity?

Ephesians 3:19 [That you may really come] to know [practically, through experience for yourselves] the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge [without experience]; that you may be filled [through all your being] unto all the fullness of God [may have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself]! AMPC

Deuteronomy 22:11 Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together.

How can we break this down in the Light of the Truth in which we stand? Spiritually speaking garments are a representation of relationship. When we, who are in Christ, are received into our perfected resurrected form, we will be clothed in white. Nothing is said as to the material upon which those robes are made.

If we might go all the way back to the first covering, we see God providing animal skins to cover Adam and Eve. It is in their sons, Cain and Able, where we can first see the issues of acceptance. The sacrifice of one of the flock, wool, was acceptable. The sacrifice of the ground, cotton, was not rejected, God just did not honor Cain’s sacrifice.

Genesis 4:7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door.

This acceptance is based on works, action, obedience of the law.

Matthew 22:40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

Love God and love others is the commandment upon which all the laws and the prophets hang. Hang, like robes of righteousness.

So if love is linen, what can wool possibly represent?

Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

What, wait, don’t mix love and grace? I am confused.

Let me ask then this question, how well do I love? Ouch, I am not so perfect in performance. Yet my perfection is still the same in grace because it is a gift from God. My ability to show love does not nullify grace.

I am mixing love and grace if I believe that my failures in love in any way changes God’s grace towards me.

I have to keep those two separate, one in the law of my mind and the other in the condition of my heart.