And this is the message which we have heard from him and declare to you, That God is light, and with him there is no darkness.

but whoever keeps his word, in him truly is the love of God perfected. By this we know that we are in him.

I wrote to you, fathers, because you have known him that is from the beginning. I wrote to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God continues in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

And the world passes away, and its desires; but he that does the will of God continues for ever.

See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God. The world therefore knows us not, because it knew him not.

Beloved, now are we children of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be. We know, that if he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

he that commits sin is of the devil, for the devil sinned from the beginning. For this was the Son of God manifested, to destroy the works of the devil.

No one that has been born of God commits sin, for his seed continues in him, and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.

By this are the children of God manifest, and the children of the devil; no one that does not righteousness is of God, and no one that loves not his brother.

And whoever has the goods of the world and sees his brother have need, and withholds his compassions from him, how continues the love of God in him?

for if our minds condemn us, God is greater than our minds and knows all things.

Beloved, if our minds do not condemn us, we have boldness before God,

BELOVED, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits whether they are of God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

By 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 anti-christ, of which you have heard that he is coming, and he is now in the world already.

You are of God, little 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 knows God hears us, he that is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and every one that loves has been born of God and knows God.

He that loves not has not known God; for God is love.

The love of God was manifested to us in this; that God has sent his only Son into the world that we may live through him.

In this is love; not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins.

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

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

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God continues in him and he in God.

And we have known and believed the love which God has for us. God is love; and he that continues in love continues in God and God in him.

If any one says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he that loves not 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 also love his brother.

Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and every one who loves the Father loves also the Son who is born to him.

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

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

for every child that has been born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory which overcomes the world, our faith.

Who is he that overcomes the world, but he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater; for this is the testimony of God that he has testified concerning his Son.

He that believes on the Son of God has the testimony in himself; he that believes not 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 gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

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

We know that every one who has been born of God does not sin, but he that has 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 wickedness.

And we know that the Son of God has come, and has 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 eternal life.