And this is the message which we have heard from him and declare to you, That God is light, and with him there is no darkness.

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

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

Who is a liar but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the anti-christ, [the man that] denies the Father and the Son.

And this is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life.

And every one that has this hope in him purifies himself, as he is pure.

he that commits sin is of the devil, for the devil sinned from the beginning. For this was the Son of God manifested, to destroy the works of the devil.

By this are the children of God manifest, and the children of the devil; no one that does not righteousness is of God, and no one that loves not his brother.

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

By this we have known love, because he 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 shall assure our hearts before him;

And this is his commandment; that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another as he gave commandment.

And he that keeps his commandments continues in him and he in him; and by this we know that he continues in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

By 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 anti-christ, of which you have heard that he is coming, and he is now in the world already.

We are of God; he that knows God hears us, he that is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

The love of God was manifested to us in this; that God has sent his only Son into the world that we may live through him.

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

By this we know that we continue in him and he in us, that he has given us of his Spirit.

By this is love perfected with us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, that as he is we also are in this world.

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

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 grievous;

for every child that has been born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory which overcomes the world, our faith.

This is he that came by water and blood, Jesus, the Christ; not by water only, but by water and by blood; and the Spirit is that which testifies, for the Spirit is the truth.

If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater; for this is the testimony of God that he has testified concerning his Son.

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

And this is the confidence which we have in respect to him, that if we ask any thing according to his will he hears us.

And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding that we may know the true One; and we are in the true One, in his Son Jesus Christ; this is the true God, and eternal life.