What was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we beheld, and our own hands felt, concerning the word of life;

What we have seen and heard we announce to you, that ye also might have communion with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.

And this is the message which we have heard from him, and we announce to you, that God is light, and no darkness is in him.

Brethren, I write no new command to you, but an old command which ye had from the beginning. The old command is the word which ye heard from the beginning.

Young children, it is the last hour: and as ye have heard that antichrist comes, and now many antichrists have come; whence we know that it is the last hour.

What therefore ye have heard from the beginning, let remain in you. If it remain in you what ye heard from the beginning, ye also shall remain in the Son, and in the Father.

For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

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

Dearly beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have freedom of speech towards God.

And every spirit which acknowledges not Jesus Christ having come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that of antichrist which ye have heard comes; and now is already in the world.