Here is the message we learned from him and announce to you: 'God is light and in him there is no darkness, none.'

but if we live and move within the light, as he is within the light, then we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from every sin.

And yet it is a new command I am writing to you ??realized in him and also in yourselves, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.

He who says he is 'in the light' and hates his brother, is in darkness still.

He who loves his brother remains in the light ??and in the light there is no pitfall;

Let that remain in you which you learned from the very beginning; if what you learned from the very beginning remains with you, then you will remain in the Son and in the Father.

Let no one deceive you, my dear children: he who practises righteousness is just, as He is just;

We know what love is by this, that He laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for the brotherhood.

My dear children, let us put our love not into words or into talk but into deeds, and make it real.

Beloved, let us love one another, for love belongs to God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God;