And this is the message that we heard from him, and do declare to you: that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

But whoever keeps his word, in him truly is the love of God perfected: by this we know that we are in him.

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

And the world and its desire passes away: but he that does the will of God, abides forever.

Behold, how great love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called the children of God! For this reason, the world knows us not, because it knew him not.

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

He that works sin is of the devil, for the devil sins from the beginning: for this purpose was the son of God manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

Whoever has been begotten of God does not work sin; because his seed remains in him: and he can not sin, because he has been begotten of God.

By this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil. Whoever does not work righteousness is not of God; neither is he that loves not his brother.

Whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother have need, and shuts his heart against him, how dwells the love of God in him?

for if our heart condemn us, we know that God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have confidence to ward God,

Beloved, believe not every spirit; but prove the spirits, whether they are from God: for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ came in the flesh, is from God:

and whatever spirit confesses not that Jesus Christ came in the flesh, is not from God: and this is the spirit of antichrist, of which you have heard that it comes, and is now already in the world.

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

We are of God: he that knows God, hears us: he that is not of God, does not hear us: by this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God: and every one that loves, has been begotten of God, and knows God.

He that loves not, does not know God; for God is love.

In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God sent his only-begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

In this is love; not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins.

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and his love is perfected in us.

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwells in him, and he in God.

And we have known and believed the love which God has for us. God is love; and he that dwells in love, dwells in God, and God in him.

If any man say, I love God, and yet hate his brother, he is a liar: for he that loves not his brother, whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

And this commandment we have from him: That he that loves God, must love his brother also.

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ, has been be gotten of God: and every one that loves him that begot, loves him also that is begotten of him.

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.

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

For whatever is begotten of God, overcomes the world; and this is the victorious principle that overcomes the world, even our faith.

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

If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater: for this is the testimony of God, which he has borne concerning his Son.

He that believes on the Son of God has the testimony in him self: he that believes not God, has made him a liar, because he has not believed the testimony which God has borne concerning his Son.

And this is the testimony, that God has given us eternal life: and this life is in his Son.

He that has the Son, has life: he that has not the Son of God, has not life.

I have written these things to you that believe on the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may believe on the name of the Son of God.

We know that whoever has been begotten of God, does not sin: but he that is begotten of God, keeps himself, and the wicked one touches him not.

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

And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding, that we may know him that is true: and we are in him that is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and life eternal. Little children, keep yourselves from idols.