This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

But whoever keeps his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: by this we know that we are in him.

I have written unto you, fathers, because you have known him who is 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 wicked one.

And the world passes away, and the lust thereof: but he that does the will of God abides forever.

Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the children of God: therefore the world knows us not, because it knew him not.

Beloved, now are we the children of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

He that commits sin is of the devil; for the devil sins from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

Whosoever is born of God does not commit sin; for his nature remains in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever does not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loves not his brother.

By this perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother have need, and shuts up his heart of compassion from him, how dwells the love of God in him?

For if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

Beloved, if our heart condemns us not, then have we confidence toward God.

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but test the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:

And every spirit that confesses not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, of which you have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

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

We are of God: he that knows God hears us; he that is not of God hears not us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and everyone that loves is born of God, and knows God.

He that loves not knows not God; for God is love.

In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

No man has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and his love is perfected in us.

Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwells in him, and he in God.

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

If a man says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar: for he that loves not his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

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

Whosoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and everyone that loves him that begat loves him also that is begotten of him.

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not burdensome.

For whoever is born of God overcomes the world: and this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith.

Who is he that overcomes the world, but he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he has testified of his Son.

He that believes on the Son of God has the witness in himself: he that believes not God has made him a liar; because he believes not the witness that God gave of his Son.

And this is the witness, that God has given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

He that has the Son has life; and he that has not the Son of God has not life.

These things have I written unto 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.

We know that whosoever is born of God sins not; but he that is begotten of God keeps himself, and that wicked one touches him not.

And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in wickedness.

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