It is of what existed from the very beginning, of what we heard, of what we saw, of what we witnessed and touched with our own hands, it is of the Logos of Life

(the Life has appeared; we saw it, we testify to it, we bring you word of that eternal Life which existed with the Father and was disclosed to us) ??3 it is of what we heard and saw that we bring you word, so that you may share our fellowship; and our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

If we say, 'We have fellowship with him,' when we live and move in darkness, then we are lying, we are not practising the truth;

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.

but whoever obeys his word, in him love to God is really complete. This is how we may be sure we are in him:

he who says he 'remains in him' ought to live as he lived.

Love not the world, nor yet what is in the world; if anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.

For all that is in the world, the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the proud glory of life, belongs not to the Father but to the world;

Now this is what he has promised you, eternal life.

'Born of him!' Think what a love the Father has for us, in letting us be called 'children of God!' That is what we are. The world does not recognize us? That is simply because it did not recognize him.

Here is how the children of God and the children of the devil are recognized; anyone who does not practise righteousness does not belong to God, and neither does he who has no love for his brother.

For this is the message you have learned from the very beginning, that we are to love one another:

We know we have crossed from death to life, because we love the brotherhood; he who has no love [for his brother] remains in death.

Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining within him.

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.

But whoever possesses this world's goods, and notices his brother in need, and shuts his heart against him, how can love to God remain in him?

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

Now this is what he commands, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another as he has commanded us to do;

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

he who does not love, does not know God, for God is love.

This is how the love of God has appeared for us, by God sending his only Son into the world, so that by him we might live.

Love lies in this, not in our love for him but in his love for us ??in the sending of his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Beloved, if God had such love for us, we ought to love one another.

God no one has ever seen; but if we love one another, then God remains within us, and love for him is complete in us.

well, we do know, we have believed, the love God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

Love is complete with us when we have absolute confidence about the day of judgment, since in this world we are living as He lives.

Love has no dread in it; no, love in its fulness drives all dread away, for dread has to do with punishment ??anyone who has dread, has not reached the fulness of love.

We love, because He loved us first.

If anyone declares, 'I love God,' and yet hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who will not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot possibly love the God whom he has never seen.

And we get this command from him, that he who loves God is to love his brother as well.

This is how we are sure that we love God's children, by loving God and obeying his commands

(for love to God means keeping his commands). And his commands are not irksome,

And the testimony is, that God gave us life eternal and this life is in his Son.

He who possesses the Son possesses life: he who does not possess the Son does not possess life.

I have written in this way to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may be sure you have life eternal.

If anyone notices his brother committing a sin which is not deadly, he will ask and obtain life for him ??for anyone who does not commit a deadly sin. There is such a thing as deadly sin; I do not mean he is to pray for that.

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us insight to know Him who is the Real God; and we are in Him who is real, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the real God, this is life eternal.