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:

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

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.

Whoever should keep his word, truly in him has the word of God been completed: in this we know that we are in him.

He saying he remains in him ought, as he walked about, so also he to walk about.

Again, I write a new command to you, which is true in him and in you: for the darkness is passed away, and the true light already shines.

He loving his brother remains in light, and there is no stumbling-block in him.

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.

Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

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.

If ye know that he is just, ye know that every one doing justice has been born of him.

See ye, what kind of love the Father has given us, that we should be called the children of God: for this the world knows us not, for it knew him not.

Dearly beloved, now are we the children of God, and it has not yet been manifested what we shall be: and we know that, if he be manifested, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

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

And ye know that he was manifested that he might let go our sins; and in him is no sin.

Every one remaining in him sins not: every one sinning has not seen him, nor known him.

Every one born of God does not sin; for his seed remains in him: and he cannot sin, for he has been born of God.

Not as Cain was of the evil one, and slew his brother. And for what slew he him? Because his works were evil, and those of his brother just.

Every one hating his brother is a manslayer: and ye know that no man-slayer has eternal life remaining in him.

And whoever has the life of the world, and sees his brother having need, and should shut up his bowels from him, how remains the love of God in him?

And in this we know that we are of the truth, and we will yield our hearts before him.

And whatever we ask, we receive of him, for we keep his commands, and do things pleasing before him.

And he keeping his commands remains in him, and he in him. And in this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit he gave us.

In this was the love of God manifested in us, that God has sent his only born Son into the world, that we might live by him.

In this we know that we remain in him, and he in us, for he has given us of his Spirit.

Whoever acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God.

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.

We should love him, for he first loved us.

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

Everyone believing that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God: and every one loving him having begotten, loves him also begotten of him.

He believing in the Son of God has the testimony in himself: he not believing God has made him a liar; for he has not believed the testimony which God has testified of his Son.

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.

If any see his brother sinning a sin not to death, he shall ask, and sinning will give him life to them sinning not to death. There is a sin to death: I say not of that, that he should ask.

We know that every one born of God sins not; but he born of God keeps himself, and evil touches him not.

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