That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have beheld, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of the life;

and the life was made manifest, and we have seen, and we testify, and we proclaim to you the life which is eternal, which was with the Father, and has been made manifest unto us;

that which we have seen and heard we also proclaim to you, in order that you may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is indeed with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.

And the same message which we have heard from him, we also proclaim to you, that God is light and in him there is no darkness.

If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:

but if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

But if we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

If we may say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

My little children, I write these things to you, in order that you may not sin. And if any one may sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

And in this we know that we have known him, if we are keeping his commandments.

The one saying, I have known him, and keeping not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;

Beloved, I write no new commandment to you, but the old one which you had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you have heard.

I write unto you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because you have conquered the wicked one. I have written unto you, little children, because you have known the Father.

I have written unto you, fathers, because you have known him from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

Little children, it is the last hour: and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, from which we know that it is the last hour.

They came out from us, but they were not of us; for if they were of us, they would have remained with us: but in order that they might be made manifest that they are not all of us.

You have an unction from the Holy One, and you all know.

I have not written unto you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

I have written these things unto you concerning those deceiving you.

And the unction which you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that any one may teach you: but as his unction teaches you concerning all things, and it is true, and it is no lie, and as he has taught you, abide in him.

And now, little children, abide in him; in order that, if he may appear, we may have boldness, and not shrink with embarrassment from him in his presence.

We know that we have passed out of the death into the life, because we love the brethren with divine love; the one loving not with divine love, abides in the death.

Whosoever may have the sustenance of the world, and see his brother having need, and shut up his sympathies from him, how dwells the divine love of God in him?

Beloved, if our heart may not condemn us, we have boldness toward God:

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits if they are of God: because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

and every spirit which does not confess Jesus is not of God: and this is the spirit of antichrist, which you have heard that he is coming; and now he is already in the world.

You are of God, little children, and you have conquered them; because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

And we have seen and we testify that the Father has sent forth his Son the Saviour of the world.

And we have known and we have believed the divine love which God has in us. God is divine love; and the one abiding in divine love abides in God, and God abides in him.

In this the divine love has been made perfect in us, that we may have boldness in the day of the judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.

And we have this precept from him, that the one loving God with divine love also loves his brother with divine love.

I have written these things unto you, in order that you may know that you have eternal life; to those who believe on the name of the Son of God.

And this is the assurance which we have toward him, that, if we may ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

And if we know that he hears us as to whatsoever we may ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked from him.