What was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we beheld, and our own hands felt, concerning the word of life;

(And the life was manifested, and we have seen, and we testify, and announce to you the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested to us;)

What we have seen and heard we announce to you, that ye also might have communion with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.

And this is the message which we have heard from him, and we announce to you, that God is light, and no darkness is in him.

If we say that we have communion with him, and walk in darkness, we are deceived, and do not the truth:

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have communion with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from every 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 to you, that ye sin not. And if any sin, we have an intercessor with the Father, Jesus Christ the just:

And in this we know that we have known him, if we should keep his commands.

He saying, I have known him, and not keeping his commands, is a liar, and in him is not the truth.

I write to you, fathers, for ye have known him from the beginning. I write to you, young men, for ye have conquered the evil. I write to you, young children, for ye have known the Father.

I wrote to you, fathers, for ye have known him from the beginning. I wrote to you, young men, for ye are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and ye have conquered the evil.

Young children, it is the last hour: and as ye have heard that antichrist comes, and now many antichrists have come; whence we know that it is the last hour.

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

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

What therefore ye have heard from the beginning, let remain in you. If it remain in you what ye heard from the beginning, ye also shall remain in the Son, and in the Father.

And the anointing which ye received from him remains in you, and ye have no need that any teach you: but as the same anointing teaches you of all things, and is true, and is no lie, and as it taught you, ye shall remain in him.

And now, little children, remain in him; that, when he be manifested, we might have freedom of speech, that we be not shamed from him in his presence.

We know that we have passed from death to life, for we love the brethren. He not loving the brother remains in death.

In this have we known love, for he set his soul for us: and we ought to set the souls for the brethren.

Dearly beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have freedom of speech towards God.

Dearly beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits if they are of God: for many false prophets have come out into the world.

And every spirit which acknowledges not Jesus Christ having come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that of antichrist which ye have heard comes; and now is already in the world.

Ye are of God, little children, and have conquered them: for greater is he in you, than he in the world.

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

And we have known and have believed the love which God has in us. God is love; and he remaining in love remains in God, and God in him.

In this has love been completed with us, that we might have freedom of speech in the day of judgment: for as he is, so are we in this world.

And this command have we from him, That he loving God love his brother also.

These I wrote to you believing in the name of the Son of God; ye might know that ye have etrnal life, and that ye might believe in the name of the Son of God.

And this is the freedom of speech which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us:

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