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.

But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and is spending his life in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Whoever denies the Son, the same has not the Father; but he who confesses the Son has the Father also. As for you, let what you have heard from the beginning abide in you.

And this is the promise which he has promised to us even life eternal.

As to you, the unction you received from him remains ever in you, and you need no teaching from any one. But since his unction teaches you concerning all things and is true, and is no lie, abide continually in him, 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 what manner of love the Father has given us in allowing us to be called "Children of God!" And that is what we are. For this reason the world does not recognize us, because it did not know him.

We are God's children now, beloved; what we shall be has never yet been made manifest. But we know that when he is manifested we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is.

Whoever continually abides in him does not habitually sin; whoever lives in sin has not seen him, nor come to know him.

We know that we have migrated, out of death into life, because we love our brothers. He who has no love is abiding in death.

Every one who is hating his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

But whoever has this world's goods, and beholds his brother in need, and shuts up his heart against him, how can the love of God continue to abide in him?

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.

No man has ever gazed on God; but if we love one another, God ever abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

By this we come to know that we are abiding in him, and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit;

and we have beheld and do testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

And we do know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love; and he who is abiding in love is abiding in God, and God is abiding in him.

Fear does not exist in love; but love, when it is perfect, drives out fear. For fear has always torment, and he who has fear is not yet perfected in love.

If any one says, "I love God," and yet hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot possibly love God, whom he has not seen.

For whoever is a child of God is overcoming the world; and our faith is the victory that has overcome the world.

If we accept men's testimony, the testimony of God is greater; for this is the testimony of God, that he has borne testimony concerning his Son.

He who believes on 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 borne concerning his Son.

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

He who has the Son has the life; he who has not the Son of God has not the life.

And we know that the Son of God is come, and has granted us and understanding, so that we may come to know him who is true. And we are in him who is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and life eternal.