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

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

And in this we know that we have known him, if we should keep his commands.

Whoever should keep his word, truly in him has the word of God been completed: in this we know that we are in him.

Brethren, I write no new command to you, but an old command which ye had from the beginning. The old command is the word which ye heard from the beginning.

Again, I write a new command to you, which is true in him and in you: for the darkness is passed away, and the true light already shines.

He saying he is in the light, and hating his brother, is in the darkness even until now.

He loving his brother remains in light, and there is no stumbling-block in him.

Young children, it is the last hour: and as ye have heard that antichrist comes, and now many antichrists have come; whence we know that it is the last hour.

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

I have not written to you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

And the anointing which ye received from him remains in you, and ye have no need that any teach you: but as the same anointing teaches you of all things, and is true, and is no lie, and as it taught you, ye shall remain in him.

And now, little children, remain in him; that, when he be manifested, we might have freedom of speech, that we be not shamed from him in his presence.

If ye know that he is just, ye know that every one doing justice has been born of him.

See ye, what kind of love the Father has given us, that we should be called the children of God: for this the world knows us not, for it knew him not.

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

And ye know that he was manifested that he might let go our sins; and in him is no sin.

We know that we have passed from death to life, for we love the brethren. He not loving the brother remains in death.

Every one hating his brother is a manslayer: and ye know that no man-slayer has eternal life remaining in him.

And in this we know that we are of the truth, and we will yield our hearts before him.

And he keeping his commands remains in him, and he in him. And in this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit he gave us.

In this ye know the spirit of God: Every spirit which acknowledges Jesus Christ having come in the flesh is of God:

And every spirit which acknowledges not Jesus Christ having come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that of antichrist which ye have heard comes; and now is already in the world.

We are of God: he knowing God hears us; he is not of God who hears us not. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

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

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

These I wrote to you believing in the name of the Son of God; ye might know that ye have etrnal life, and that ye might believe in the name of the Son of God.

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

We know that every one born of God sins not; but he born of God keeps himself, and evil touches him not.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in evil.

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