And the same message which we have heard from him, we also proclaim to you, that God is light and in him there is no darkness.

but whosoever shall keep his word, truly the divine love of God has been made perfect in him. In this we know that we are in him.

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

The world and its lust are indeed passing away; but the one doing the will of God abides forever.

Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the children of God; and we are. And on this account the world does not know us, because it did not know him.

Beloved, now are we the children of God, and it is not yet manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he may be made manifest, we shall be like him; because we shall see him as he is.

The one doing sin is of the devil; because the devil sins from the beginning. Unto this the Son of God was made manifest, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

Every one having been born of God does not sin; because his seed remains in him: and he is not able to sin, because he has been born of God.

In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: every one not doing righteousness is not of God, and the one not loving his brother with divine love.

Whosoever may have the sustenance of the world, and see his brother having need, and shut up his sympathies from him, how dwells the divine love of God in him?

because if our heart may condemn us, it is because God is greater than our heart, and he knows all things.

Beloved, if our heart may not condemn us, we have boldness toward God:

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits if they are of God: because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

In this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit which confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God:

and every spirit which does not confess Jesus is not of God: and this is the spirit of antichrist, which you have heard that he is coming; and now he is already in the world.

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

We are of God: the one knowing God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. From this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

Beloved, let us love one another with divine love: because divine love is of God; and the one loving with divine love has been born of God, and knows God.

The one not loving with divine love does not know God; because God is divine love.

In this the divine love of God has been made manifest in us, because God has sent his only begotten Son into the world that we may live through him.

In him is divine love, not because we loved God with divine love, but because he loved us with divine love, and sent his Son an expiation for our sins.

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

No one has seen God at any time; if we love one another with divine love, God abides in us, and his divine love has been made perfect in us.

Whosoever may confess that Jesus is the Son of God, in him God abides, and he in God.

And we have known and we have believed the divine love which God has in us. God is divine love; and the one abiding in divine love abides in God, and God abides in him.

If any one may say, I love God with divine love, and may hate his brother, he is a liar: for the one not loving his brother whom he has seen, with divine love, is not able to love God, whom he has not seen, with divine love.

And we have this precept from him, that the one loving God with divine love also loves his brother with divine love.

Every one believing that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God: and every one loving with divine love him who begat, also loves him who has been begotten of him, with divine love.

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

For this is the divine love of God, that we may keep his commandments: and his commandments are not heavy:

because everything which has been born of God conquers the world: and this is the victory which has conquered the world, our faith.

Who is the one conquering the world, except the one believing that Jesus is the Son of God?

If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: because this is the witness of God that he has testified concerning his Son.

The one believing on the Son of God has the witness in himself: the one not believing God has made him a liar; because he has not believed in the testimony which God has testified concerning his Son.

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

The one having the Son has the life; the one not having the Son of God has not the life.

I have written these things unto you, in order that you may know that you have eternal life; to those who believe on the name of the Son of God.

We know that every one who has been born of God, sins not; but the one having been born of God keeps himself, and the evil one does not touch him.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the evil one.

But we know that the Son of God has come and has given unto us intelligence, that we know the truth. And we are in the true one, in his Son Jesus Christ; he is the true God, and eternal life.