This, then, is the message that we have heard from him, and are announcing to you, that God is light, and no darkness what ever is in him.

and the truth is not in him; bit if any man obey his word, in him truly is the love of God made perfect. By this we come to know that we are in him.

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.

and the world and its lusts are passing away, but he who ever does the will of God abides forever.

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.

We are God's children now, beloved; what we shall be has never yet been made manifest. But we know that when he is manifested we shall be like him; for we shall see him even 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 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.

In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil; for every one who does not work righteousness is not a child of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.

But whoever has this world's goods, and beholds his brother in need, and shuts up his heart against him, how can the love of God continue to abide in him?

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

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

Do not believe every spirit, beloved, but test the spirits to see whether they are of God; for many false prophets are gone out into the world.

By this you know the Spirit of God; every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is from God;

and every spirit which confesses him not, is not from God. And this is that spirit of Antichrist of which you have heard that it is coming, and that now it is already in the world.

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.

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.

Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God; and every one that loves us a child of God.

He who does not love, does not know God; for God is love.

In this was the love of God clearly shown toward us, by his sending his only Son into the world, so 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 a propitiation for our sins.

If God so loved us, beloved, we also ought to love one another.

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.

If any man confesses that "Jesus is the Son of God." God is abiding in that man, and he in God.

And we do know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love; and he who is abiding in love is abiding in God, and God is abiding in him.

If any one says, "I love God," and yet hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot possibly love God, whom he has not seen.

And we have this command from God: HE WHO LOVES GOD IS TO LOVE HIS BROTHER ALSO.

Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God; and every one who loves the Father, loves him also who is the Father's Child.

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

For love to God means obeying his commandments; and his commandments are not irksome.

For whoever is a child of God is overcoming the world; and our faith is the victory that has overcome the world.

And who it the one that is overcoming the world if not the man who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

If we accept men's testimony, the testimony of God is greater; for this is the testimony of God, that he has borne testimony concerning his Son.

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.

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

He who has the Son has the life; he who has not the Son of God has not the life.

I have written these words to you so that you may know that you have eternal life, you who believe in the name of the Son of God.

If any one sees his brother committing a sin that is not deadly, he shall ask, and God will give him life, for any one who is not committing a deadly sin. There is a deadly sin; concerning that I do not say that he should pray.

We know that whoever is a child of God is not habitually committing sin; but he who is God's child guards himself, and the Evil One never touches him.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world is lying in the Evil One.

And we know that the Son of God is come, and has granted us and understanding, so that we may come to know him who is true. And we are in him who is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and life eternal.