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

But whoso keepeth his word, verily in him the love of God is perfected: hereby we know that we are in him.

I have written to you, fathers, because ye have known him that is 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 wicked one.

And the world passeth away, and the desire thereof; but he that doth the will of God abideth for ever.

Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the Sons of God; therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know, when he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning: to this end the son of God was manifested, to destroy the works of the devil.

Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed abideth in him, and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

Hereby the children of God are manifest and the children of the devil: whosoever practiseth not righteousness is not of God; neither he that loveth not his brother.

Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

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

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

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

Hereby ye know the spirit of God: every spirit which confesseth Jesus Christ come in the flesh, is of God.

And every spirit which confesseth not Jesus Christ come in the flesh, is not of God: and this is that spirit of Antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and now already it is in the world.

Ye are of God, beloved 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 not us: hereby know we the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

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

He that loveth not, knoweth not God; for God is love.

Hereby was manifested the love of God toward us, because God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

Herein 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 man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

Whosoever shall confess, that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth in him, and he in God.

And we know and believe the love that God hath to us. God is love, and he that abideth in love, abideth in God, and God in him.

If a man say, 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 have we from him, that he who loveth God, love his brother also.

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

Hereby 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 whosoever is born of God overcometh the world; and this is the victory that overcometh 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 testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater; and this is the testimony of God, which he hath testified of his Son.

He that believeth on the Son of God, hath the testimony in himself. He that believeth not God, hath made him a liar, because he believeth not the testimony which he hath testified of his Son.

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

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

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

We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not;

but he that is born of God keepeth himself, and the wicked one toucheth him not. We know, that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in the wicked one.

But we know that the Son of God is come; and he hath given us an understanding that we may know the true one; and we are in the true one, even in his Son Jesus Christ; this is the true God and eternal life.