And this is the message which we have heard from him, and declare to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

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

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

And hereby we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

He that says, I know him, and does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;

but whoever keeps his word, in him verily the love of God is perfected. Hereby we know that we are in him.

He that says he abides in him ought, even as he walked, himself also so to walk.

Again, I write a new commandment to you, which thing is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing and the true light already shines.

He that loves his brother abides in light, and there is no occasion of stumbling in him.

I write to you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write to you, little children, because ye have known the Father.

I have written to you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.

Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any one love the world, the love of the Father is not in him;

and yourselves, the unction which ye have received from him abides in you, and ye have not need that any one should teach you; but as the same unction teaches you as to all things, and is true and is not a lie, and even as it has taught you, ye shall abide in him.

And now, children, abide in him, that if he be manifested we may have boldness, and not be put to shame from before him at his coming.

If ye know that he is righteous, know that every one who practises righteousness is begotten of him.

See what love the Father has given to us, that we should be called the children of God. For this reason the world knows us not, because it knew him not.

Beloved, now are we children of God, and what we shall be has not yet been manifested; we know that if it is manifested we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

And every one that has this hope in him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

And ye know that he has been manifested that he might take away our sins; and in him sin is not.

Whoever abides in him, does not sin: whoever sins, has not seen him or known him.

Whoever has been begotten of God does not practise sin, because his seed abides in him, and he cannot sin, because he has been begotten of God.

not as Cain was of the wicked one, and slew his brother; and on account of what slew he him? because his works were wicked, and those of his brother righteous.

Every one that hates his brother is a murderer, and ye know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

But whoso may have the world's substance, and see his brother having need, and shut up his bowels from him, how abides the love of God in him?

And hereby we shall know that we are of the truth, and shall persuade our hearts before him --

and whatsoever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments, and practise the things which are pleasing in his sight.

And he that keeps his commandments abides in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit which he has given to us.

Herein as to us has been manifested the love of God, that God has sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

Hereby we know that we abide in him and he in us, that he has given to us of his Spirit.

Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

And we have known and have believed the love which God has to us. God is love, and he that abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

And this commandment have we from him, That he that loves God love also his brother.

Every one that believes that Jesus is the Christ is begotten of God; and every one that loves him that has begotten loves also him that is begotten of him.

He that believes on the Son of God has the witness in himself; he that does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the witness which God has witnessed concerning his Son.

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

And if we know that he hears us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.

If any one see his brother sinning a sin not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life, for those that do not sin unto death. There is a sin to death: I do not say of that that he should make a request.

We know that every one begotten of God does not sin, but he that has been begotten of God keeps himself, and the wicked one does not touch him.

And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding that we should know him that is true; and we are in him that is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.