<p>3:22 <em>And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments, and do the things that are pleasing in His sight</em>- As shown on :21, the thought has developed from having love for each giving us boldness before the Father and Son in the day of judgment, to now being bold and confident in prayer before them now. Because our attitude toward them now in prayer shall be our attitude at the last day. The theme of being confident because we live in love is also continued. The &quot;commandments&quot; in view are I suggest a plural of majesty, referring to the one great commandment- to love as He loved us. Indeed the next verse (:23) rather makes this clear. See on 2:3. And this is 'to do the things pleasing to God', a phrase lifted directly from Jn. 8:29 &quot;I do always those things that please Him&quot;. So effectively, we shall have our prayers answered, we can have boldness in prayer, if we obey the commandment to love &quot;because we keep his commandments&quot;, which is to live as He lived, loving as He loved &quot;and do the things that are pleasing in His sight&quot;. And this fits perfectly with the context of the preceding verses- that we can have boldness before the same Father and Son, if we live in love.</p>