It is what existed from the beginning, that we announce; what we have heard, what we have seen with our own eyes, what we have beheld, and touched with our hands; it is the very message of life??2 for life has been revealed, and we have seen it and testify to it and announce to you that eternal life that was with the Father and has been revealed to us??3 it is what we have seen and heard that we announce to you also, so that you may share our fellowship, for our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ,

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 little children, these things I write to you that you may not sin. But if any one has sinned, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous,

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 keeps his word, God's love has truly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in 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 walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, 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 been victorious over the evil one. I write to you, 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 been victorious over 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.

Whoever denies the Son, the same does not have the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also.

And what he himself has promised us is eternal life.

You still retain in your hearts the anointing with the Spirit that you received from him, and you do not need to have anyone teach you. But just as that anointing of his teaches you about everything, and as it is true and no falsehood, keep in union with him just as it has taught you to do.

If you know that he is righteous you know also that every one who habitually practices righteousness has been born of him.

Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world does not know us, because it did not know him.

Dear friends, we are God's children now; it has not yet been disclosed what we are to be. We know that if he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

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

Whoever remains in him does not sin. Whoever sins hasn't seen him, neither knows him.

He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil.

Anyone who is a child of God does no sin, because he still has God's seed in him; he is not able to be a sinner, because God is his Father.

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.

Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining 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 goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain 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 command is this??hat we are to believe in his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he has commanded us to do.

All who obey his commands keep in union with him, and he does with them; and this is how we know that he keeps in union with us??y the Spirit which he has given us.

By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,

and every spirit that does not confess Jesus [acknowledging that He has come in the flesh, but would deny any of the Son’s true nature] is not of God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and is now already in the world.

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.

My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.

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

By this God's love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

Dear friends, if God has loved us so, we ought to love one another.

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.

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

We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

We love because he has first loved us.

If a 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, cannot 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.

Everyone who has faith that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God: and everyone who has love for the Father has love for his child.

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome 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 receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is God's testimony that he has testified concerning 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 given concerning his Son.

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

He who has the Son has the life. He who does not have God's Son does not have the life.

We know that the person who has been born from God does not go on sinning. Rather, the Son of God protects them, and the evil one cannot harm them.

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.