THAT which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled concerning the Word of life;

(the life also was manifested, and we have seen, and do testify, and declare to you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested to us;)

that which we have seen and heard, we declare it to you, that you also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.

If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth.

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

My little children, I write these things to you, that you may not sin: and yet, if any one sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

Beloved, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment, which you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word, which you have heard from the beginning.

I write to you, fathers, because you have known him that is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the wicked one. I write to you, my little children, because you have known the Father.

I have written to you, fathers, because you have known him that is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the wicked one.

Little children, it is the last time; and, as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now there are many antichrists; by which we know that it is the last time.

They went out from us, but they were not of us: for, if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

And you have an anointing from the Holy One, and know all things.

I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

Let that, therefore, abide in you which you have heard from the beginning. If that abide in you which you have heard from the beginning, you also shall abide in the Son and in the Father.

I have written these things to you concerning those who deceive you.

And the anointing which you have received from him abides in you; and you have no need that any one should teach you: but, as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true and is no lie, even as it has taught you, abide in it.

And now, little children, abide in him, that when he appears, we may have confidence, and may not be made ashamed by him at his coming.

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

We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren: he that loves not his brother, abides in death.

Whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother have need, and shuts his heart against him, how dwells the love of God in him?

And by this we know that we are of the truth; and we shall have our hearts at rest before him:

Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have confidence to ward God,

Beloved, believe not every spirit; but prove the spirits, whether they are from God: for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

and whatever spirit confesses not that Jesus Christ came in the flesh, is not from God: and this is the spirit of antichrist, of which you have heard that it comes, and is now already in the world.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because he that is in you, is greater than he that is in the world.

And we have seen, and we do testify, that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the. world.

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

By this is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because, as he is, so are we in this world.

And this commandment we have from him: That he that loves God, must love his brother also.

I have written these things to you that believe on the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may believe on the name of the Son of God.

And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask any thing according to his will, he hears us.

And if we know that he hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.