(and the life was made known, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the eternal life that was with the Father, and was made known to us),

what we have seen and heard we also declare to you, so that ye also may have fellowship with us. Even also our fellowship with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.

And we write these things to you, so that our joy may be made full.

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

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

If we say that we have no sin, we lead ourselves astray, and the truth is not in us.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous so that he will forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from every unrighteousness.

If we 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 so that ye may not sin. And if any man does sin, we have an advocate with the Father--righteous Jesus Christ.

And by this we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

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

He who claims to abide in him he also ought so to walk just as that man walked.

Brothers, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment that ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that ye heard from the beginning.

Children, it is the last hour. And as ye heard that the antichrist comes, and now many antichrists have developed, from which we know that it is the last hour.

They went out from us, but they were not of us. For if they were of us, they would have continued with us, but--so that they might be made known, that they are not all of us.

Who is the liar if not he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.

And this is the promise that he promised us: the eternal life.

And for you, the anointing that ye received from him abides in you, and ye have no need that any man teach you, but as the same anointing teaches you about all things, and is TRUE and is no lie, and just as it taught you, ye will a

And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he is made known, we may have confidence, and not be shamed by him at his coming.

If ye know that he is righteous, know ye that every man doing righteousness has been begotten of him.

Behold what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we may be called children of God. Because of this the world does not know you, because it did not know him.

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet made known what we will be. But we know that whenever he is made known we will be like him, because we will see him as he is.

And every man who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as that man is pure.

And ye know that that man was made known so that he might take up our sins. And in him is no sin.

Little children, let no man lead you astray. He who is doing righteousness is righteous, just as that man is righteous.

He who is doing sin is of the devil, because the devil sinned from the beginning. The Son of God was made known for this, so that he might destroy the works of the devil.

Because this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love each other.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who is not loving the brother abides in death.

Every man hating his brother is a man-killer. And ye know that no man-killer has eternal life abiding in him.

By this we know love, because that man laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

And by this we know that we are of the truth, and will assure our hearts before him.

Because if our heart should condemn us, that God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love each other, just as he gave command.

And he who keeps his commandments abides in him, and he in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, from the Spirit that he gave us.

By this ye know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses Jesus Christ having come in flesh is of God,

and every spirit that does not confess Jesus Christ has come in flesh is not of God. And this is that of the antichrist, which ye have heard that it comes, and is now in the world already.

By this the love of God was made known in us, because God sent his Son, the only begotten, into the world so that we might live through him.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son, an atonement for our sins.

In this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us from his Spirit.

And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son, a Savior of the world.

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

And we know, and have believed the love that God has in us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

By this love has been fully perfected with us, so that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because just as that man is, we also are in this world.

And we have this commandment from him, so that he who loves God will also love his brother.

Every man who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been begotten from God, and every man who loves him who begot, also loves him who has been begotten from 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 may keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.

Because everything that has been begotten from God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith.

And who is he who overcomes the world, if not he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ, not by the water only, but by the water and the blood. And it is the Spirit that testifies, because the Spirit is truth.

If we accept the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater. Because this is the testimony of God that he has testified about his Son.

He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified about his Son.

And this is the testimony, that God gave eternal life to us, and this life is in his Son.

I wrote these things to you, those who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe in the name of the Son of God.

And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

And if we know that he hears us, whatever we may ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked from him.

If any man may see his brother sinning a sin not toward death, he will ask, and he will give life to him, to those not sinning toward death. There is sin toward death. I do not say that he should make request about that.

We know that every man who has been begotten from God does not sin, but he who was begotten from God keeps himself, and the evil does not touch him.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world is set in the evil.

And we know that the Son of God comes, and has given us understanding, so that we may know the true. And we are in the true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the TRUE God, and the eternal life.