what we have seen and heard, we declare unto you, that ye also may be of the same society with us: and truly associated with the father, and with his son Jesus Christ.

but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have society one with another, and the blood of his son Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all sin.

My dear children, these things I write unto you, that ye may avoid sin. but if any man has failed, we have an advocate with the father, Jesus Christ the just.

he that says he is attach'd to Christ, ought to regulate his conduct by his example.

I write to you, dear children, because your sins are forgiven you upon the account of Christ.

who is so great an impostor as he, who denies that Jesus is the Christ? he is antichrist, that denies the father and the son.

this is the proof of the divine love, Christ expos'd his life for us: and we ought to expose our lives for the brethren.

now this is his commandment, that we believe in his son Jesus Christ, and that we love one another, as he commanded us.

by this you may distinguish the spirit of God: "every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is from God.

and every spirit that does not own that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is not from God." this is that anti-christian spirit which you have heard was to come, and even now it appears in the world.

the divine love to us will be in the highest degree, if our condition in this world be the same as was that of Christ Jesus; so that we may appear with confidence in the day of judgment.

We know that the son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding to know him that is true: and we are with him that is true, by his son Jesus Christ. "he is the true God, who is the author of eternal life."