That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes; that which we contemplated, and our hands handled, concerning the word of life;

(and the life has been manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and report to you the eternal life, which was with the Father, and has been manifested to us:)

that which we have seen and heard we report to you, that ye also may have fellowship with us; and our fellowship is indeed with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.

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

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

But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one 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 children, these things I write to you in order that ye may not sin; and if any one sin, we have a patron with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous;

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

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

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

Little children, it is the last hour, and, according as ye have heard that antichrist comes, even now there have come many antichrists, whence we know that it is the last hour.

They went out from among us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have surely remained with us, but that they might be made manifest that none are of us.

And ye have the unction from the holy one, and ye know all things.

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

As for you let that which ye have heard from the beginning abide in you: if what ye have heard from the beginning abides in you, ye also shall abide in the Son and in the Father.

These things have I written to you concerning those who lead you astray:

and yourselves, the unction which ye have received from him abides in you, and ye have not need that any one should teach you; but as the same unction teaches you as to all things, and is true and is not a lie, and even as it has taught you, ye shall abide in him.

And now, children, abide in him, that if he be manifested we may have boldness, and not be put to shame from before him at his coming.

For this is the message which ye 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 who does not love his brother abides in death.

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 whoso may have the world's substance, and see his brother having need, and shut up his bowels from him, how abides the love of God in him?

Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have boldness towards God,

and every spirit which does not confess Jesus Christ come in flesh is not of God: and this is that power of the antichrist, of which ye have heard that it comes, and now it is already in the world.

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

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

And we have known and have believed the love which God has to us. God is love, and he that abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

Herein has love been perfected with us that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, that even as he is, we also are in this world.

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

These things have I written to you that ye may know that ye have eternal life who believe on the name of the Son of God.

And this is the boldness which we have towards him, that if we ask him anything according to his will he hears us.

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