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

And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments.

The one who says "I have come to know him," and does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in this person.

But whoever keeps his word, truly in this person the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in him.

Dear friends, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the message which you have heard.

Again, I am writing a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light already is shining.

The one who says [he] is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness until now.

The one who loves his brother resides in the light, and [there] is no cause for stumbling in him.

But the one who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Children, it is the last hour, and just as you have heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen, by which we know that it is the last hour.

And you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know.

I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and because every lie is not of the truth.

And now, little children, remain in him, so that whenever he is revealed we may have confidence and not be put to shame before him at his coming.

If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered by him.

See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called children of God, and we are! Because of this the world does not know us: because it did not know him.

Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever he is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is.

And you know that that one was revealed in order that he might take away sins, and in him [there] is no sin.

Little children, let no one deceive you: the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as that one is righteous.

We know that we have passed over from death to life because we love the brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.

Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that every murderer does not have eternal life residing in him.

We have come to know love by this: that {he} laid down his life on behalf of us, and we ought to lay down our lives on behalf of the brothers.

By this we know that we are of the truth and will convince our heart before him,

And the one who keeps his commandments resides in him, and he in him. And by this we know that he resides in us: by the Spirit whom he has given to us.

By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,

and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God, and this is the [spirit] of the antichrist, [of] which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world.

We are from God. The one who knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit.

The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God resides in us and his love is perfected in us.

By this we know that we reside in him and he in us: that he has given us of his Spirit.

And we have come to know and have believed the love that God has in us. God is love, and the one who resides in love resides in God, and God resides in him.

[There] is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear includes punishment, and the one who is afraid has not been perfected in love.

By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and keep his commandments.

Now who is the one who conquers the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

These [things] I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, in order that you may know that you have eternal life.

And if we know that he hears us [in] whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked from him.

We know that everyone who is fathered by God does not sin, but the one fathered by God, he protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.

We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in [the power of] the evil one.

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, in order that we may know the one who is true, and we are in the one who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.