That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have beheld, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of the life;

that which we have seen and heard we also proclaim to you, in order that you may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is indeed with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.

And we write the same things to you, in order that our joy may be full.

And the same message which we have heard from him, we also proclaim to you, that God is light and in him there is no darkness.

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

But if we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous that he may forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

If we may 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, in order that you may not sin. And if any one may sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

And in this we know that we have known him, if we are keeping his commandments.

but whosoever shall keep his word, truly the divine love of God has been made perfect in him. In this we know that we are in him.

The one saying that he abides in him ought himself so to walk about, as he also did walk about.

The one saying that he is in the light, and hating his brother, is in the darkness until now.

Love not the world, nor the things that are in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him:

because this is all that is in the world; the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, which is not of the Father, but is of the world.

Little children, it is the last hour: and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, from which we know that it is the last hour.

They came out from us, but they were not of us; for if they were of us, they would have remained with us: but in order that they might be made manifest that they are not all of us.

I have not written unto you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

Who is a liar except the one denying that Jesus is the Christ? This one is the antichrist, the one denying the Father and the Son.

Let that which you heard from the beginning abide in you. If that which you heard from the beginning may abide in you, you also are abiding in the Son, and in the Father.

And the unction which you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that any one may teach you: but as his unction teaches you concerning all things, and it is true, and it is no lie, and as he has taught you, abide in him.

And now, little children, abide in him; in order that, if he may appear, we may have boldness, and not shrink with embarrassment from him in his presence.

If you may know that he is righteous, know that every one doing righteousness has been born of him.

Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the children of God; and we are. And on this account the world does not know us, because it did not know him.

Beloved, now are we the children of God, and it is not yet manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he may be made manifest, we shall be like him; because we shall see him as he is.

And you know that he was manifested that he might take away sins; and in him there is no sin.

The one doing sin is of the devil; because the devil sins from the beginning. Unto this the Son of God was made manifest, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

Because this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we must love one another,

We know that we have passed out of the death into the life, because we love the brethren with divine love; the one loving not with divine love, abides in the death.

Every one hating his brother is a murderer: and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in himself.

And in this we shall know that we are of the truth, and we shall assure our hearts before him;

And this is his commandment, that we may believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and we may love one another with divine love, as he has given to us commandment.

And the one keeping his commandments abides in him, and he in him; and in this we know that he abides in us, he has given us of his Spirit.

In this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit which confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God:

and every spirit which does not confess Jesus is not of God: and this is the spirit of antichrist, which you have heard that he is coming; and now he is already in the world.

In this the divine love of God has been made manifest in us, because God has sent his only begotten Son into the world that we may live through him.

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

And we have seen and we testify that the Father has sent forth his Son the Saviour of the world.

Whosoever may confess that Jesus is the Son of God, in him God abides, and he in God.

In this the divine love has been made perfect in us, that we may have boldness in the day of the judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.

And we have this precept from him, that the one loving God with divine love also loves his brother with divine love.

Every one believing that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God: and every one loving with divine love him who begat, also loves him who has been begotten of him, with divine love.

In this we know that we love the children of God with divine love, when we love God with divine love and keep his commandments.

For this is the divine love of God, that we may keep his commandments: and his commandments are not heavy:

Who is the one conquering the world, except the one believing that Jesus is the Son of God?

If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: because this is the witness of God that he has testified concerning his Son.

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

I have written these things unto you, in order that you may know that you have eternal life; to those who believe on the name of the Son of God.

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

And if we know that he hears us as to whatsoever we may ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked from him.

If any one may see his brother sinning a sin not unto death, he shall ask, and he will give him life to those sinning not unto death. There is a sin unto death; concerning this I do not say that you may ask.

We know that every one who has been born of God, sins not; but the one having been born of God keeps himself, and the evil one does not touch him.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the evil one.

But we know that the Son of God has come and has given unto us intelligence, that we know the truth. And we are in the true one, in his Son Jesus Christ; he is the true God, and eternal life.