And this is the promise which we have heard from him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and that darkness in him there is none.

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

I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him, who is from the beginning. I have written unto 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 is passing away, and the lust thereof, but he who doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

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

Beloved, now are we the children of God, and it is not yet evident what we shall be: but we know that when he shall appear, we shall be like him; because we shall see him as he is.

he that practises sin is of the devil; for from the beginning the devil sinneth. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

Every one who is born of God, doth not practise sin, because his seed abideth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

By this the children of God are manifestly seen, and the children of the devil. Every one that doth not practise righteousness, is not of God, and he that loveth not his brother.

But whosoever hath worldly abundance, and seeth his brother under necessity, and shutteth his bowels of compassion against him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

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

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

BELOVED, believe not every pretender to inspiration, but bring these spirits to the trial whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone forth into the world.

By this ye know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesseth that Jesus the Messiah is come in the flesh, is from God.

And every spirit who confesseth not that Jesus the Messiah is come into the world, is not from God: and this is that spirit of antichrist which ye have heard that it is coming, and now is already in the world.

Ye are of God, my dear children, and have overcome them; because he that is in you is greater than he that is in the world.

We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth us not. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of delusion.

Beloved, let us love one another; because love is from God, and every one who loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

He that loveth not, never knew God; for God is love.

By this was the love of God manifested to us, that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might have life by him.

Herein is love, not that we have loved God, but that he hath loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiatory sacrifice 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 have known and believed the love which God hath towards us. God is love; and he that abideth in love, abideth in God, and God in him.

If any person say, I love God, yet hateth his brother, he is a liar; for he who loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love the God whom he hath not seen?

So this commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God love also his brother.

EVERY one who believeth that Jesus is the Messiah, is born of God; and every one who loveth him that begat, loveth him also who is begotten by 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 should keep his commandments: and his commandments are not burdensome.

Because every one that is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory which overcometh the world, our faith.

Who is he that overcometh the world, except he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

If we receive the testimony of man, the testimony of God is stronger: for this is the testimony of God which he testified concerning 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 hath not believed on the testimony which God testified of his Son.

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

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

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

If any person see his brother committing a sin not unto death, he shall request, and God will grant him life for those that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I say not that he should request for that.

We know that every one who is born of God sinneth not; but he that is born of God preserveth himself, and the wicked one toucheth him not.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world is under the power of that wicked one.

But we know that the Son of God hath come, and hath given to us understanding, that we might know the true God; and we are in him that is true, in his Son Jesus the Messiah. HE is the true God, and the life eternal.