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;

but whosoever shall keep his word, truly the divine love of God has been made perfect in him. In this we know that we are in him.

The one loving his brother with divine love abides in the light, and there is no stumbling in him.

Love not the world, nor the things that are in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him:

because this is all that is in the world; the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, which is not of the Father, but is of the world.

This is the message which he proclaimed unto you, eternal life.

Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the children of God; and we are. And on this account the world does not know us, because it did not know him.

In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: every one not doing righteousness is not of God, and the one not loving his brother with divine love.

Because this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we must love one another,

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.

Every one hating his brother is a murderer: and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in himself.

In this we know the divine love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

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?

Little children, let us love with divine love not in word, nor in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

And this is his commandment, that we may believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and we may love one another with divine love, as he has given to us commandment.

Beloved, let us love one another with divine love: because divine love is of God; and the one loving with divine love has been born of God, and knows God.

The one not loving with divine love does not know God; because God is divine love.

In this the divine love of God has been made manifest in us, because God has sent his only begotten Son into the world that we may live through him.

In him is divine love, not because we loved God with divine love, but because he loved us with divine love, and sent his Son an expiation for our sins.

Beloved, if God so loved us with divine love, we ought also to love one another with divine love.

No one has seen God at any time; if we love one another with divine love, God abides in us, and his divine love has been made perfect in us.

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.

There is no fear in divine love; but perfect divine love casts out the fear: because the fear has torment; and the one fearing has not been made perfect in the divine love.

Let us love with divine love, because he himself first loved us with divine love.

If any one may say, I love God with divine love, and may hate his brother, he is a liar: for the one not loving his brother whom he has seen, with divine love, is not able to love God, whom he has not seen, with divine love.

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

Every one believing that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God: and every one loving with divine love him who begat, also loves him who has been begotten of him, with divine love.

In this we know that we love the children of God with divine love, when we love God with divine love and keep his commandments.

For this is the divine love of God, that we may keep his commandments: and his commandments are not heavy:

And this is the testimony, that God has given unto us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

The one having the Son has the life; the one not having the Son of God has not the life.

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.

If any one may see his brother sinning a sin not unto death, he shall ask, and he will give him life to those sinning not unto death. There is a sin unto death; concerning this I do not say that you may ask.

But we know that the Son of God has come and has given unto us intelligence, that we know the truth. And we are in the true one, in his Son Jesus Christ; he is the true God, and eternal life.