It is of what has existed from the beginning, of what we have listened to, of what we have seen with our own eyes, of what we have witnessed and touched with our own heads, it is concerning the Logos of Life that we are now writing.

and that life has been unveiled to us, and we have seen it and now testify to it and we now announce it to you, yea, the eternal life that was with the Father and has been unveiled to us.

We give you word of all we have seen and everything which has come to our ears, so that you may be united with us; and we are united with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ:

These, then, are the Tidings that we have heard from him and now tell you-- 'God is Light, and Darkness has no place at all in him.'

If we claim to be already free from sin, we lead ourselves astray and the truth has no place in our hearts.

If we say that we have never sinned, we make him a liar and his word has no place in us.

My dear children, these things I write unto you, that ye may avoid sin. but if any man has failed, we have an advocate with the father, Jesus Christ the just.

he is the the victim that has expiated our sins: and not ours only, but likewise the sins of the whole world.

The person who says, "I have come to know him," but does not continually keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth has no place in that person.

but whoever practices obedience to His message really has a perfect love of God in his heart. By this we can be sure that we are in union with Him:

He who says that he is in the light, and has hate in his heart for his brother, is still in the dark.

He who has love for his brother is in the light, and there is no cause of error in him.

But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and he goes about in the darkness, and knows not where he goes, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

I am writing to you, fathers, because you know Him who has existed from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have conquered the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you know the Father.

I write to you, fathers, because you know Him who has existed from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and God's message is always in your hearts, and you have conquered the evil one.

Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Dear children, the last hour has come; and as you once heard that there was to be an anti-Christ, so even now many anti-Christs have appeared. By this we may know that the last hour has come.

I have not sent you this letter because you have no knowledge of what is true, but because you have knowledge, and because that which is false has nothing in common with that which is true.

Who is false but he who says that Jesus is not the Christ? He is the Antichrist who has no belief in the Father or the Son.

He who has no belief in the Son has not the Father: he who makes clear his belief in the Son has the Father.

And the very thing that He Himself has promised us is eternal life.

As for you, the Spirit which he gave you is still in you, and you have no need of any teacher; but as his Spirit gives you teaching about all things, and is true and not false, so keep your hearts in him, through the teaching which he has given you.

If ye know that he is righteous, know ye that every man doing righteousness has been begotten of him.

Behold what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we may be called children of God. Because of this the world does not know you, because it did not know him.

Dearly beloved, we are now God's children, but what we are going to be has not been unveiled. We know that if it is unveiled, we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is.

And every man who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as that man is pure.

And ye know that he has been manifested that he might take away our sins; and in him sin is not.

Every man abiding in him does not sin. Every man who is sinning has not seen him, nor has known him.

The sinner is a child of the Evil One; for the Evil One has been a sinner from the first. And the Son of God was seen on earth so that he might put an end to the works of the Evil One.

Every man who has been begotten of God is not doing sin, because his seed abides in him, and he cannot sin, because he has been begotten of God.

In this way it is clear who are the children of God and who are the children of the Evil One; anyone who does not do righteousness or who has no love for his brother, is not a child of God.

Do not be surprised, my brothers, if the world has no love for you.

We are conscious that we have come out of death into life because of our love for the brothers. He who has no love is still in death.

Every man hating his brother is a man-killer. And ye know that no man-killer has eternal life abiding in him.

Hereby we have known love, because he has laid down his life for us; and we ought for the brethren to lay down our lives.

But whoever has the world's living, and sees his brother having need, and closes his bowels from him, how does the love of God abide in him?

When our heart says that we have done wrong; because God is greater than our heart, and has knowledge of all things.

His commandment is this, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another as he has commanded us to do.

He who keeps his commandments is abiding in Him, and Christ in him. By this we know that Christ is abiding in us, by the Spirit which he has given us.

By this you may have knowledge of the Spirit of God: every spirit which says that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God:

and every spirit that does not confess Jesus Christ has come in flesh is not of God. And this is that of the antichrist, which ye have heard that it comes, and is now in the world already.

We are of God: he who has the knowledge of God gives ear to us; he who is not of God does not give ear to us. By this we may see which is the true spirit, and which is the spirit of error.

Beloved, we should love each other. Because love is of God, and every man who loves has been begotten of God, and knows God.

He who has no love has no knowledge of God, because God is love.

This is the way God's love for us has been shown, namely, God has sent His only Son into the world that we through Him might have life.

Dearly beloved, if God has loved us so, we ought to love one another too.

No man has ever seen God. If we love each other, God abides in us, and his love is in us, having been fully perfected.

In this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us from his Spirit.

And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son, a Savior of the world.

Everyone who says openly that Jesus is the Son of God, has God in him and is in God.

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

By this love has been fully perfected with us, so that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because just as that man is, we also are in this world.

Fear is not in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear holds punishment, and he who is afraid has not been fully perfected in love.

We love because he has first loved us.

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

And this is the word which we have from him, that he who has love for God is to have the same love for his brother.

Every man who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been begotten from God, and every man who loves him who begot, also loves him who has been begotten from him.

Because everything that has been begotten from God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith.

Who is able to overcome the world but the man who has faith that Jesus is the Son of God?

If we accept the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater. Because this is the testimony of God that he has testified about his Son.

He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified about his Son.

And his witness is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

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

We know that every man who has been begotten from God does not sin, but he who was begotten from God keeps himself, and the evil does not touch him.

And we know that the Son of God comes, and has given us understanding, so that we may know the true. And we are in the true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the TRUE God, and the eternal life.