My dear children, I am writing you this so that you may not sin; yet if anyone ever sins, we have One who pleads our case with the Father, Jesus Christ, One who is righteous.

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 conquered the evil one. I write to you, little 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 conquered the evil one.

They have gone out from our own number, but they did not really belong to us; for if they had, they would have stayed with us. It was to show that none of those who went out really belonged to us.

Who is the notorious liar, if it is not the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is the real Antichrist, the man who disowns the Father and the Son.

No one who disowns the Son can have the Father. Whoever owns the Son has the Father too.

I write you this with reference to those who are trying to lead you astray,

If you know that He is upright, you must know that everyone who practices uprightness is born of Him.

And everyone who has this hope in him tries to make himself as pure as He is.

Everyone who commits sin commits lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.

No one who continues to live in union with Him practices sin. No one who practices sin has ever seen Him or come to know Him.

No one who is born of God makes a practice of sinning, because the God-given life-principle continues to live in him, and so he cannot practice sinning, because he is born of God.

This is the way to distinguish God's children from the devil's children. No one who fails to do right is God's child, and no one who fails to love his brother.

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

Anyone who keeps on hating his brother is a murderer; and you know that no murderer can have eternal life remaining in him.

You are children of God, dear children, and you have conquered these men, because He who is in our hearts is greater than he who is in the world.

Dearly beloved, let us practice loving one another, because love originates with God, and everyone who practices loving is a child of God and knows God by experience.

There is no fear in love, and perfect love drives out fear, because fear pertains to punishment, and no one who is subject to fear has attained perfection in love.

If anyone says, "I love God," and yet habitually hates his brother, he is a liar; for whoever does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves His child.

Now who is it that continues to conquer the world, if it is not the person who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

He is the One who came through water and blood -- Jesus Christ; not through water only but through water and blood. The Spirit also testifies to this, because the Spirit is truth.

I have written this to you who believe in the person of the Son of God, so that you may know that you already have eternal life.

If anyone sees his brother committing a sin that does not lead to death, he will ask and God will grant him life; yea, He will grant it to any who do not commit a sin that leads to death. There is a sin that leads to death; I do not say that one should pray for that.

We know that no one who is born of God makes a practice of sinning, but the Son who was born of God continues to keep him, and the evil one cannot touch him.