This is the message which we have heard from him and announce 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 the darkness, we lie, and do not tell the truth.

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

This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.

One who 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, God's love has truly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him:

he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

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

He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.

I am writing to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you know the Father.

I have written to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

Do not love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love is not in him.

As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you do not need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you remain in him.

Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone also who practices righteousness is born of him.

Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world does not know us, because it did not know him.

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. We know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

You know that he was revealed to take away sins, and in him is no sin.

Whoever remains in him does not sin. Whoever sins hasn't seen him, neither knows him.

Whoever is born of God does not commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.

But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?

And by this we will know that we are of the truth, and persuade our heart before him,

and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

By this God's love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God.

We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.

He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

And if we know that he listens to us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.

If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. I do not say that he should make a request concerning this.

We know that whoever is born of God does not sin, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.

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