what we have seen and heard we also proclaim to you, so that you too may have fellowship [as partners] with us. And indeed our fellowship [which is a distinguishing mark of born-again believers] is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ.

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

and not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother [Abel]. And why did he murder him? Because Cain’s deeds were evil, and his brother’s were righteous.

This is how we have come to know love: the Messiah gave his life for us. We, too, ought to give our lives for our brothers.

Dearly beloved, if God has loved us so, we ought to love one another too.

And the commandment we have from him is this: that the one who loves God should love his fellow Christian too.

it appear'd by the water, and by the blood, who he was, even Jesus the Messiah; not by the water only, but by the water and by the blood: besides, the spirit is a witness too, now the spirit is truth itself.

We realize, too, that the Son of God has come among us, and has given us the discernment to know the True God; and we are in union with the True God by our union with his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the True God and he is Immortal Life.