I am writing to you, dear children, because your sins have been forgiven for his sake.

I am writing to you, fathers, because you know him who has existed from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have been victorious over the evil one. I write to you, children, because you know the Father.

I write to you, fathers, because you know him who has existed from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and God's message is always in your hearts, and you have been victorious over the evil one.

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

No one who is a child of God commits sin, for God's nature remains in his heart, and he cannot sin, because he is a child of God.

We must not be like Cain who was a child of the evil one, and butchered his brother. And why did he butcher him? Because his own actions were wicked and his brother's upright.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love is still in death.

and we obtain from him whatever we ask for, because we are obeying his commands and doing the things that please him.

Love attains perfection in us, when we have perfect confidence about the Day of Judgment, because here in this world we are living as he lives.

We love because he loved us first.