If we claim that we have fellowship with him but keep living in darkness, we are lying and not practicing the truth.

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

But if we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

But if we confess our sins, faithful is he and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all wrong-doing.

but if we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

My children, I am writing this to you that you may not continue to sin; but if any one sin, we ever have a Comforter before the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous.

And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

Whoever says, "I know him," but does not obey his commands, is a liar, and there is no truth in his heart;

But whoever keeps his word, God's love has truly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him:

Beloved, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard.

The person who says that he is in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness.

But he who loves his brother is abiding in the light, and in it there is no cause of stumbling.

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.

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not the Father's, but is the world's.

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God's will remains forever.

Children, it is the last hour. You have learned that 'Antichrist is coming.' Well, but many antichrists have appeared ??which makes us sure it is the last hour.

They went out from us, but they did not belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

But you have been anointed by the Holy One. You all know the truth;

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.

Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.

Every one that denieth the Son, neither doth he hold the Father; but he that acknowledgeth the Son, holdeth the Father also.

But as for you, keep in your hearts the things which were made clear to you from the first. If you keep these things in your hearts you will be kept in the Father and the Son.

As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you do not need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you remain in him.

Look at how much love the Father has shown to us [Christians], that we should be called His children! But, that is what we [really] are! The reason the people of the world do not know who we are is because they do not know who God [really] is.

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.

But, you [should] know that Christ appeared [on earth] to take away [our] sins, and that there is no sin in His life [See II Cor. 5:21].

He that committeth sin is of the devil: for the devil sinneth since the beginning. But for this cause appeared the son of God, even to destroy the works of the devil.

not acting like Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother: but why did he slay him? because his own actions were evil, and his brother's were virtuous.

But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?

Little children, let us not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

But if our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts, and knoweth all things.

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.

But every spirit who does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist. You have heard that he is coming, and now he is already in the world.

[But], you people are [followers] of God, little children [i.e., dear ones], and you have overcome them [i.e., these false teachers] because He who is in your lives [i.e., the Holy Spirit, See 3:24] is greater [i.e., more powerful] than he who is in [i.e., dominates] the world [i.e., Satan. See II Cor. 4:4].

But you are of God. He who is beginning to know God listens to us; he who is not of God does not listen to us. By this we may distinguish the spirit of truth from the spirit of error.

In this is love, not that we have loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

No man has ever gazed on God; but if we love one another, God ever abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

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.

Whoever says, "I love God," but hates his brother is a liar. The one who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love the God whom he has not seen.

Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

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.

We accept the testimony of men, but God's testimony is still stronger; and there is the testimony of God--the fact that he has already borne testimony about his Son.

Any wrongdoing is sin, but there are sins that are not deadly.

We know that whoever is born of God does not sin, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.

We are certain that we are of God, but all the world is in the power of the Evil One.

But we know that the Son of God hath come, and hath given to us understanding, that we might know the true God; and we are in him that is true, in his Son Jesus the Messiah. HE is the true God, and the life eternal.