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,

but he that hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness, and knows not where he goes, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

No one that denies the Son has the Father; he that confesses the Son has the Father also.

And the anointing which you received from him continues in you, and you have no need that any one should teach you; but as his anointing teaches you of all things, and is true and is not a lie, even as it has taught you, continue in him.

If you know that he is righteous, you know that every one who does righteousness has been born of him.

See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God. The world therefore knows us not, because it knew him not.

And every one that has this hope in him purifies himself, as he is pure.

No one that continues in him sins; no one that sins has seen him, or known him.

No one that has been born of God commits sin, for his seed continues in him, and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.

Every one that hates his brother is a murderer; and we know that no murderer has eternal life continuing in him.

And whoever has the goods of the world and sees his brother have need, and withholds his compassions from him, how continues the love of God in him?

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

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and every one that loves has been born of God and knows God.

He that loves not has not known God; for God is love.

The love of God was manifested to us in this; that God has sent his only Son into the world that we may live through him.

No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God continues in us and his love is perfected in us.

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

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

And we have known and believed the love which God has for us. God is love; and he that continues in love continues in God and God in him.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has pain; and he that is afraid is not made perfect in love.

If any one says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he that loves not his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and every one who loves the Father loves also the Son who is born to him.

for every child that has been born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory which overcomes the world, our faith.

If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater; for this is the testimony of God that he has testified concerning his Son.

He that believes on the Son of God has the testimony in himself; he that believes not God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony which God has testified concerning his Son.

He that has the Son has the life; he that has not the Son has not the life.

We know that every one who has been born of God does not sin, but he that has been born of God keeps himself, and the evil one does not touch him.

And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding that we may know the true One; and we are in the true One, in his Son Jesus Christ; this is the true God, and eternal life.