Yet again it is a new commandment which I am writing to you, which is true in him and is you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining.

But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and is spending his life in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

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

I am writing to you, fathers, because you have come to know him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have fully overcome the Evil One. I have written to you, little children, because you have learned to know the father.

I have written to you, fathers, because you have learned to know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God is abiding in you, and you have fully overcome the Evil One.

I am not writing to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and know that no lie is of the truth.

Behold what manner of love the Father has given us in allowing us to be called "Children of God!" And that is what we are. For this reason the world does not recognize us, because it did not know him.

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 a child of God cannot go on sinning, because his seed is abiding in him; and he cannot go on sinning because he is a child of God.

We are not to be like Cain, who belonged to the Evil One, and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? It was because his own deeds were evil, and his brother's, righteous.

We know that we have migrated, out of death into life, because we love our brothers. He who has no love is abiding in death.

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

and shall persuade our heart in his presence whenever our heart condemns us, because God is greater than our heart and knows all things.

and whatever we ask we are receiving from him, because we are keeping his commandments and doing those things that are pleasing in his sight.

My little children, you are of God and have conquered them; because he that is within you is greater than he that is in the world.

By this we come to know that we are abiding in him, and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit;

In this is love made perfect with us, so that we may have cheerful confidence in the Day of Judgment, because we are living in this world as He lives.

We love because He loved us first.

Jesus Christ is he who came by water and blood, not by the water only, but by the water and by the blood. The spirit is he who bears testimony, because the Spirit is the truth.

He who believes on 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 borne concerning his Son.