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

But if we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

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

My little children, I write these things to you, in order that you may not sin. And if any one may sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

he is the expiator for our sins: and not ours only, but indeed for the whole world.

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

But the one hating his brother is in darkness, and walks about in darkness, and does not know whither he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

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:

because this is all that is in the world; the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, which is not of the Father, but is of the world.

They came out from us, but they were not of us; for if they were of us, they would have remained with us: but in order that they might be made manifest that they are not all of us.

I have not written unto you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

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.

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.

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.

In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: every one not doing righteousness is not of God, and the one not loving his brother with divine love.

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.

And be not astonished, brother, if the world hates you.

We know that we have passed out of the death into the life, because we love the brethren with divine love; the one loving not with divine love, abides in the death.

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?

Little children, let us love with divine love not in word, nor in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

Beloved, if our heart may not condemn us, we have boldness toward God:

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

and every spirit which does not confess Jesus is not of God: and this is the spirit of antichrist, which you have heard that he is coming; and now he is already in the world.

We are of God: the one knowing God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. From this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

The one not loving with divine love does not know God; because God is divine love.

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.

There is no fear in divine love; but perfect divine love casts out the fear: because the fear has torment; and the one fearing has not been made perfect in the divine love.

If any one may say, I love God with divine love, and may hate his brother, he is a liar: for the one not loving his brother whom he has seen, with divine love, is not able to love God, whom he has not seen, with divine love.

For this is the divine love of God, that we may keep his commandments: and his commandments are not heavy:

He is the one having come through water and blood, Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood; the Spirit is the one who bears witness, because the Spirit is the truth.

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.

The one having the Son has the life; the one not having the Son of God has not the life.

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.

All unrighteousness is sin: and there is sin not unto death.

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.