Moreover, this is the message which we have heard from him, and declare to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

But whoever keeps his word, truly in this man the love of God is perfected. By this we know that we are in him.

Fathers, I have written to you, because you have known him from the beginning. Young men, I have written to you, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the wicked one.

Now the world passes away, and the lust of it; be he who does the will of God, abides forever.

Behold how great love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this reason, the world does not know us, because it did not know him.

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

He who works 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.

Whoever has been begotten by God, does not work sin; because his seed abides in him; and he can not sin, because he has been begotten by God.

By this the children of God are discovered, and the children of the devil: whoever works not righteousness, is not of God, neither he who loves not his brother.

Whoever, therefore, has the goods of this world, and sees his brother in need, and yet shuts up his compassion from him, how abides the love of God in him?

But if our heart condemn us, certainly God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

Beloved, if our heart do not condemn us, we have confidence with God.

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but try the spirits, whether they be from God; because many false prophets are gone forth into the world.

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

And every spirit that does not confess Jesus, is not from God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, which you have heard that it comes, and now is in the world already.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because he is greater, who is with you, than he who is with the world.

We are of God: he who know God, hearkens to us; he who is not of God, hearkens not to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

Beloved, let us love one another; for love is from God: and every one who loves, has been begotten by God, and knows God.

He who does not love, does not know God; for God is love.

By this the love of God was manifested to us, that God sent forth his Son, the only begotten, 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 forth his Son to be a propitiation for our sins.

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

No one has seen God, at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is made perfect in us.

Whoever will confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

And we have known, and believed the love which God has in us. God is love; wherefore, he who abides in love, abides in God, and God in him.

If any one say, Indeed I love God, and yet hate his brother, he is a liar: for he who loves not his brother, whom he has seen, how can he love God, whom he has not seen?

Moreover, this commandment we have from him, that he who loves God, loves his brother, also.

Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ, has been begotten by God; and every one who loves the begetter, loves also the begotten by 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;

because, every one that is begotten by God, overcomes the world. And this is the victory which overcomes the world, even our faith.

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

If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater. Now, this is the testimony of God, which he has testified concerning his Son.

(He who believes on the Son of God, has the testimony in himself. He who believes not God, has made him a liar, because he has not believed the testimony, which God has testified concerning his Son.)

Now this is the testimony, that God has given to us eternal life: and this life is in his Son.

He who has the Son, has this life; he who has not the Son of God, has not this life.

These things I have written to you, that you may know that you have eternal life-that you may continue to believe on the name of the Son of God.

We know that whoever has been begotten by God, does not sin; but he who is begotten by God, guards himself, and the wicked on does not lay hold on him.

We know that we are of God, and that the whole world lies under the wicked one.

Moreover, we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding, that we might know him that is true; and we are in him that is true-in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and the eternal life.