If we are confessing our sins, faithful, is he and, righteous - that he should forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

MY dear children, these things I write to you, that ye should not sin. And if any of us sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

And in this we know that we have known him, if we should keep his commands.

Whoever should keep his word, truly in him has the word of God been completed: in this we know that we are in him.

The one who says he remains in Him should walk just as He walked.

You should not love the [godless] world, nor the things [i.e., the materialistic values] that are part of this [present] age. If any person loves the world, a [genuine] love for the Father is not in his heart.

Dear children, it is [now] the last hour [i.e., the final period of God's dealing with people on earth], and since you have heard that an antichrist [i.e., a person who is against Christ] is coming, even now [you should be aware that] many antichrists have [already] come. This is [one way] we know that this is the last hour.

You people should continue [to practice] what you heard from the beginning [i.e., to love one another, See verses 7-11]. If you do, then you also will continue in [fellowship with] the Son, and with the Father.

But the unction which ye have received from him abideth in you; and ye need not that any person should instruct you. But as the same unction teacheth you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie; and as it hath taught you, abide in him.

If you know that Christ is [truly] righteous [verse 1], then you should also know that everyone who does what is right has been [spiritually] conceived [and eventually born] by God [See 5:18].

Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world does not know us, because it did not know him.

Beloved! now, are we, children of God; and, not yet, hath it been made manifest, what we shall be, - We know that, if it should be made manifest, like unto him, shall we be, because we shall see him, just as he is.

he that hath such an expectation should purify himself, even as he is pure.

And ye know, that, He, was made manifest - in order that, our sins, he should take away, and, sin, in him, is there none.

For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

In this we know his love, that He laid down his life for us: and we should be ready to lay down our lives for the brethren.

And whoever has the life of the world, and sees his brother having need, and should shut up his bowels from him, how remains the love of God in him?

My Little children, we should not love in word, nor with the tongue, but in deed and in truth.

For should our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.

Beloved, if our heart should not condemn us, we have confidence toward God,

This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded us.

And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is not of God. And the same is that spirit of antichrist, of whom ye have heard, how that he should come: and even now already is he in the world.

Beloved, we should love each other. Because love is of God, and every man who loves has been begotten of God, and knows God.

Herein appeared the love of God to us ward, because that God sent his only begotten son into the world, that we should live through him.

Loved ones, if God loved us that much, we should also love one another.

Herein is the love perfect with us, that we should have confidence in the day of judgment; For as he is, even so are we in this world.

We should love him, for he first loved us.

If one should say, I love God, and should be hating, his brother, false, is he; for, he that doth not love his brother, whom he hath seen, God, whom he hath not seen, he cannot love!

This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

For this is the love of God, that we should keep his commandments: and his commandments are not burdensome.

If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. I do not say that he should make a request concerning this.

And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding that we should know him that is true; and we are in him that is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.