If we claim that we have not committed sins, we are [in effect] calling God a liar [i.e., because He says we have] and His word [i.e., the real truth about the matter] is not in our hearts.

Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shines.

But he 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.

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

I am writing to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you know the Father.

I have written to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world.

They went out from us, but they were not of us: for if they had been indeed of us, they would have continued with us; but this was done that they might be made manifest, because all, that are with us, are not indeed of us.

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

The anointing you received from God abides in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you this. Instead, because God's anointing teaches you about everything and is true and not a lie, abide in him, as he taught you to do.

Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world does not know us, because it did not know him.

Beloved, now are we the children of God, and it is not yet evident what we shall be: but we know that when he shall appear, we shall be like him; because we shall see him as he is.

He who is committing sin is of the devil, because from the beginning of the devil is sinning. It was for this cause that the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

Whoever is born of God does not commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

Because this is the word which was given to you from the first, that we are to have love for one another;

unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous. Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who does not love remains in death.

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

Loved ones, if our hearts do not condemn us [i.e., because we are showing love by helping the needy], we can have boldness before God [in prayer for our own needs];

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

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

They -- of the world they are; because of this from the world they speak, and the world doth hear them;

Beloved, let us love one another; because love is from God, and every one who loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

He who has no love has no knowledge of God, because God is love.

Herein appeared the love of God to us ward, because that God sent his only begotten son into the world, that we should live through him.

In him is divine love, not because we loved God with divine love, but because he loved us with divine love, and sent his Son an expiation for our sins.

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

In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

We love, because he first loved us.

If anyone says "I love God" and yet hates his fellow Christian, he is a liar, because the one who does not love his fellow Christian whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

Because every one that is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory which overcometh the world, our faith.

This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is the truth.

Because there are three that testify to it, the Spirit, the water, and the blood, and the three agree.

If we take the witness of men to be true, the witness of God is greater: because this is the witness which God has given about his Son.

He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.