It is what existed from the beginning, that we announce; what we have heard, what we have seen with our own eyes, what we have beheld, and touched with our hands; it is the very message of life??2 for life has been revealed, and we have seen it and testify to it and announce to you that eternal life that was with the Father and has been revealed to us??3 it is what we have seen and heard that we announce to you also, so that you may share our fellowship, for our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ,

But if we live in the light, just as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from every sin.

If we say, "We are without any sin," we are deceiving ourselves, and there is no truth in our hearts.

My dear children, I am writing you this so that you may not sin; yet if anyone does sin, we have in Jesus Christ one who is upright and will intercede for us with the Father.

Who is such a liar as the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is the real Antichrist??he man who disowns the Father and the Son.

No one who disowns the Son can have the Father. Whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father too.

Keep what you have heard from the beginning in your hearts; then you will always be in union with the Son and the Father.

Whoever commits sin disobeys law; sin is disobedience to law.

You know that he appeared to take our sins away, and that there is no sin in him.

No one who keeps in union with him sins. Anyone who sins has never seen him or come to know him.

Whoever commits sin is a child of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. This is why the Son of God appeared??o undo the devil's work.

No one who is a child of God commits sin, for God's nature remains in his heart, and he cannot sin, because he is a child of God.

His command is this??hat we are to believe in his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he has commanded us to do.

God's love for us has been revealed in this way??hat God has sent his only Son into the world, to let us have life through him.

The love consists not in our having loved God, but in his loving us and sending his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

No one has ever seen God; yet if we love one another, God keeps in union with us and love for him attains perfection in our hearts.

We have seen and can testify that the Father has sent the Son to be Savior of the world.

If anyone acknowledges that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, God keeps in union with him and he with God.

If anyone says, "I love God," and yet hates his brother, he is a liar; for whoever does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

For who is there that is victorious over the world except the man who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

If we accept the testimony of men, the testimony of God is stronger still; for the value of God's testimony lies in this, that he has testified to his Son.

Whoever believes in the Son of God possesses that testimony in his heart. Anyone who will not believe God has made him a liar, for he has refused to believe the testimony that God has borne to his Son.

And that testimony is that God has given us eternal life, and that this life is found in his Son.

Whoever has the Son has life; whoever has not the Son has not life.

I have written this so that you who believe in the Son of God may know that you have eternal life.

If anyone sees his brother committing any sin except a deadly one, he will ask and obtain life for him??rovided the sin is not a deadly one. There is such a thing as deadly sin; I do not say that a man should pray about that.

Any wrongdoing is sin, but there are sins that are not deadly.

We know that no child of God commits sin, but the fact that he is God's child protects him, and the evil one cannot touch him.

And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us power to recognize him who is true; and we are in union with him who is true, through his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.