And the same message which we have heard from him, we also proclaim to you, that God is light and in him there is no darkness.

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

If we may 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 are keeping his commandments.

The one saying, I have known him, and keeping not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;

but whosoever shall keep his word, truly the divine love of God has been made perfect in him. In this we know that we are in him.

The one saying that he abides in him ought himself so to walk about, as he also did walk about.

Again I do write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you: because the darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining.

The one loving his brother with divine love abides in the light, and there is no stumbling in him.

I write unto you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because you have conquered the wicked one. I have written unto you, little children, because you have known the Father.

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

Love not the world, nor the things that are in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him:

And the unction which you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that any one may teach you: but as his unction teaches you concerning all things, and it is true, and it is no lie, and as he has taught you, abide in him.

And now, little children, abide in him; in order that, if he may appear, we may have boldness, and not shrink with embarrassment from him in his presence.

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

Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the children of God; and we are. And on this account the world does not know us, because it did not know him.

Beloved, now are we the children of God, and it is not yet manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he may be made manifest, we shall be like him; because we shall see him as he is.

Indeed every one having this hope on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

And you know that he was manifested that he might take away sins; and in him there is no sin.

No one abiding in him is sinning: every one sinning does not see him, nor know him.

Every one having been born of God does not sin; because his seed remains in him: and he is not able to sin, because he has been born of God.

not as Cain was of the evil one, and slew his brother; and on account of what did he slay him? Because his own works were evil, and those of his brother righteous.

Whosoever may have the sustenance of the world, and see his brother having need, and shut up his sympathies from him, how dwells the divine love of God in him?

And in this we shall know that we are of the truth, and we shall assure our hearts before him;

and whatsoever we may ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things pleasing before him.

And the one keeping his commandments abides in him, and he in him; and in this we know that he abides in us, he has given us of his Spirit.

In this the divine love of God has been made manifest in us, because God has sent his only begotten Son into the world that we may live through him.

In him is divine love, not because we loved God with divine love, but because he loved us with divine love, and sent his Son an expiation for our sins.

In this we know that we abide in him, and he in us, because he has given us of his spirit.

Whosoever may confess that Jesus is the Son of God, in him God abides, and he in God.

And we have known and we have believed the divine love which God has in us. God is divine love; and the one abiding in divine love abides in God, and God abides in him.

And we have this precept from him, that the one loving God with divine love also loves his brother with divine love.

Every one believing that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God: and every one loving with divine love him who begat, also loves him who has been begotten of him, with divine love.

The one believing on the Son of God has the witness in himself: the one not believing God has made him a liar; because he has not believed in the testimony which God has testified concerning his Son.

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

And if we know that he hears us as to whatsoever we may ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked from him.

If any one may see his brother sinning a sin not unto death, he shall ask, and he will give him life to those sinning not unto death. There is a sin unto death; concerning this I do not say that you may ask.

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