And this is the message which we have heard from him, and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

But whoever keepeth his word, truly in him is the love of God perfected. Hereby we know that we are in him.

I have written to you, fathers, because ye know him that was from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the Evil One.

And the world is passing away, and the lust thereof; but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God l For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

Beloved, now are we children of God, and it hath not yet been manifested what we shall be. We know that, when it shall be manifested, we shall be like him; because we shall see him as he is.

He that committeth sin is of the Devil; for the Devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the Devil.

Whoever hath been born of God doth not commit sin, because his seed abideth in him; and he cannot sin, because he hath been born of God.

In this are manifest the children of God and the children of the Devil. Whoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, and he that loveth not his brother.

But whoever hath this worlds goods, and seeth his brother having need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

because if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.

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

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone forth into the world.

Hereby ye know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledgeth that Jesus Christ hath come in the flesh, is of God.

And every spirit that doth not acknowledge Jesus, is not of God; and this is that spirit of Antichrist, of which ye have heard that it is to come, and even now it is already in the world.

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

We are of God; he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth us not. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

Beloved, let us love one another; for love is from God, and every one that loveth hath been born of God, and knoweth God;

he that loveth not hath not known God; for God is love.

In this was manifested the love of God in regard to us, that God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we may live through him.

Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins.

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

No one hath ever seen God. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

Whoever acknowledgeth that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.

And we have known and believed the love that God hath in regard to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

If any one saith, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar; for he that loveth not his brother, whom he hath seen, how can he love God, whom he hath not seen?

And this commandment we have from him, that he who loveth God love also his brother.

Whoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ hath been born of God; and every one that loveth him that begat, loveth also him that hath been begotten of him.

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

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

because whatever is born of God overcometh the world; and this is the victory that hath overcome the world, even our faith.

Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is the witness of God, that he hath borne witness concerning his Son.

He that believeth in the Son of God hath the witness within him; he that believeth not God hath made him a liar, because he hath not believed in the witness which God hath borne concerning his Son.

And this is the witness, that God gave to us everlasting life, and this life is in his Son.

He that hath the Son hath the life; he that hath not the Son of God hath not the life.

These things have I written to you, that ye may know that ye who believe in the name of the Son of God have everlasting life.

We know that whoever hath been born of God sinneth not; but he that is born of God keepeth himself, and the Evil One toucheth him not.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth under the dominion of the Evil One.

And we know that the Son of God hath come, and hath given us understanding, that we may know the True One; and we are in the True One, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and everlasting life.