THAT which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we beheld and our hands felt, concerning the Word of life,??2 and the life was made manifest, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested to us,??3 that which we have seen and heard, we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

And this is the message which we have heard from him and declare to you, That God is light, and with him there is no darkness.

Beloved, I write not a new commandment to you, but an old commandment, which you had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you heard.

Again, a new commandment I write you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is past and the true light now appears.

Let that which you heard from the beginning continue in you. If that which you heard from the beginning continues in you, you also shall continue in the Son and in the Father.

And this is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life.

And the anointing which you received from him continues in you, and you have no need that any one should teach you; but as his anointing teaches you of all things, and is true and is not a lie, even as it has taught you, continue in him.

For this is the message which you heard from the beginning; that we should love one another;

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

And he that keeps his commandments continues in him and he in him; and by this we know that he continues in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

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

and every spirit which does not confess Jesus is not of God. And this is the [spirit] of anti-christ, of which you have heard that he is coming, and he is now in the world already.

And we have known and believed the love which God has for us. God is love; and he that continues in love continues in God and God in him.

for every child that has been born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory which overcomes the world, our faith.

This is he that came by water and blood, Jesus, the Christ; not by water only, but by water and by blood; and the Spirit is that which testifies, for the Spirit is the truth.

He that believes on the Son of God has the testimony in himself; he that believes not God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony which God has testified concerning his Son.

And this is the confidence which we have in respect to him, that if we ask any thing according to his will he hears us.

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