Now this is the message we have heard from Him and declare to you: God is light, and there is absolutely no darkness in Him.

The one who says he is in the light but hates his brother is in the darkness until now.

Children, it is the last hour. And as you have heard, “Antichrist is coming,” even now many antichrists have come. We know from this that it is the last hour.

So now, little children, remain in Him, so that when He appears we may have boldness and not be ashamed before Him at His coming.

Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him because we will see Him as He is.

Now this is His command: that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another as He commanded us.

But every spirit who does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist; you have heard that he is coming, and he is already in the world now.

For this is what love for God is: to keep His commands. Now His commands are not a burden,

Now this is the confidence we have before Him: Whenever we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.