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

But whoever keeps His Word, truly in this one the love of God is perfected. By this we know that we are in Him.

I write to you, fathers, because you have known Him who 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 evil one.

And the world passes away, and the lust of it, but he who does the will of God abides forever.

Behold what manner of love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God. Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be. But we know that when He shall be revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.

He who practices sin is of the Devil, for the Devil sins from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was revealed, that He might undo the works of the Devil.

Everyone who has been born of God does not commit sin, because His seed remains in him, and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.

In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the Devil: everyone not practicing righteousness is not of God, also he who does not love his brother.

By this we have known the love of God, because He laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

But whoever has this world's goods and sees his brother having need, and shuts up his bowels from him, how does the love of God dwell in him?

that if our heart accuses us, God is greater than our heart and knows all things.

Beloved, if our heart does not accuse us, we have confidence toward God.

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

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

and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the antichrist you heard is coming, and even now is already in the world.

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

We are of God. He who knows God hears us. The one 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, for love is of God, and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

The one who does not love has not known God. For God is love.

In this the love of God was revealed in us, because 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 propitiation concerning our sins.

Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also 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 shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwells in him and he in God.

And we have known and believed the love that God has in us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

If anyone says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar. For if he does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

And we have this commandment from Him, that he who loves God should love his brother also.

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. And everyone who loves Him who begets also loves him who has been born of Him.

By this we know that we love the children of God, whenever 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 everything that has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith.

Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes 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 which He has testified about His Son.

He who believes on the Son of God has the witness in himself. He who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he does not believe the record that God gave of His Son.

And this is the record, that God has given to us everlasting life, and this life is in His Son.

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

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

We know that everyone who has been born of God does not continue to sin, but the one born of God guards himself, and the evil one does not touch him.

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

And we know that the Son of God has come, and He has given us an understanding so that we may know Him who is true. And we are in Him that is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and the everlasting life.