but whoever keeps his word, in him verily the love of God is perfected. Hereby we know that we are in him.

I write to you, children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.

I have written to you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.

They went out from among us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have surely remained with us, but that they might be made manifest that none are of us.

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

In this are manifest the children of God and the children of the devil. Whoever does not practise righteousness is not of God, and he who does not love his brother.

And hereby we shall know that we are of the truth, and shall persuade our hearts before him --

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

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, if they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

Ye are of God, children, and have overcome them, because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.

They are of the world; for this reason they speak as of the world, and the world hears them.

We are of God; he that knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. From this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

Herein has love been perfected with us that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, that even as he is, we also are in this world.

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments; and his commandments are not grievous.

For they that bear witness are three:

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

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