That which was from the first, which has come to our ears, and which we have seen with our eyes, looking on it and touching it with our hands, about the Word of life

(And the life was made clear to us, and we have seen it and are witnessing to it and giving you word of that eternal life which was with the Father and was seen by us);

We give you word of all we have seen and everything which has come to our ears, so that you may be united with us; and we are united with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ:

This is the word which came to us from him and which we give to you, that God is light and in him there is nothing dark.

My loved ones, I do not give you a new law, but an old law which you had from the first; this old law is the word which came to your ears.

Again, I give you a new law, which is true in him and in you; for the night is near its end and the true light is even now shining out.

Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

I have not sent you this letter because you have no knowledge of what is true, but because you have knowledge, and because that which is false has nothing in common with that which is true.

But as for you, keep in your hearts the things which were made clear to you from the first. If you keep these things in your hearts you will be kept in the Father and the Son.

And this is the hope which he gave you, even eternal life.

As for you, the Spirit which he gave you is still in you, and you have no need of any teacher; but as his Spirit gives you teaching about all things, and is true and not false, so keep your hearts in him, through the teaching which he has given you.

Because this is the word which was given to you from the first, that we are to have love for one another;

And he gives us all our requests, because we keep his laws and do the things which are pleasing in his eyes.

He who keeps his laws is in God and God is in him. And the Spirit which he gave us is our witness that he is in us.

By this you may have knowledge of the Spirit of God: every spirit which says that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God:

And every spirit which does not say this is not from God: this is the spirit of Antichrist, of which you have had word; and it is in the world even now.

We are of God: he who has the knowledge of God gives ear to us; he who is not of God does not give ear to us. By this we may see which is the true spirit, and which is the spirit of error.

And his Spirit which he has given us is the witness that we are in him and he is in us.

And we have seen and had faith in the love which God has for us. God is love, and everyone who has love is in God, and God is in him.

And this is the word which we have from him, that he who has love for God is to have the same love for his brother.

Anything which comes from God is able to overcome the world: and the power by which we have overcome the world is our faith.

If we take the witness of men to be true, the witness of God is greater: because this is the witness which God has given about his Son.

He who has faith in the Son of God has the witness in himself: he who has not faith in God makes him false, because he has not faith in the witness which God has given about his Son.

And we are certain that if we make any request to him which is right in his eyes, he will give ear to us:

If a man sees his brother doing a sin which is not bad enough for death, let him make a prayer to God, and God will give life to him whose sin was not bad enough for death. There is a sin whose punishment is death: I do not say that he may make such a request then.