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.

I have written to you, children, because you have known the Father. I have written to you, fathers, because you have known the [One who is] from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God resides in you, and you have conquered the evil one.

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us. But [they went out], in order that it might be shown that all of them are not of us.

These [things] I have written to you concerning the ones who are trying to deceive you.

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.

By this the children of God and the children of the devil are evident: everyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, namely, the one who does not love his brother.

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

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits [to determine] if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

You are from God, little children, and have conquered them, because the one [who is] in you is greater than the one [who is] in the world.

They are from the world; {therefore} they speak from the world and the world listens to them.

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.

By this love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, because just as that one is, [so] also are we in this world.

For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome,

For [there] are three that testify,

the Spirit and the water and the blood, and the three are {in agreement}.

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.