THAT which was from the beginning, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have gazed upon, and our hands have handled of the word of life;

(for the life was manifested, and we have beheld it, and bear testimony, and declare unto you that life eternal, which was with the Father, and was manifested to us;)

that which we have seen and heard, declare we to you, that ye also may have communion with us: and indeed our communion is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.

And this is the promise which we have heard from him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and that darkness in him there is none.

Brethren, I write not a new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning: the old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.

Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which is a true thing in him, and in you, because the darkness is past, and the true light is now shining.

Love not the world, neither the things which are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

For every thing which is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pomp of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

My dear children, it is the last hour; and as ye have heard that antichrist is coming, even now there are many antichrists: by which we know it is the last hour.

Let that abide in you therefore which ye have heard from the beginning. If that abide in you which ye heard from the beginning, ye also shall abide in the Son and in the Father.

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

But the unction which ye have received from him abideth in you; and ye need not that any person should instruct you. But as the same unction teacheth you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie; and as it hath taught you, abide in him.

For this is the commandment which ye have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

And whatsoever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments, and do the things which are pleasing in his sight.

And he that keepeth his commandments abideth in him, and he in him; and by this we know that he abideth in us, from the Spirit which he hath given us.

And every spirit who confesseth not that Jesus the Messiah is come into the world, is not from God: and this is that spirit of antichrist which ye have heard that it is coming, and now is already in the world.

And we have known and believed the love which God hath towards us. God is love; and he that abideth in love, abideth in God, and God in him.

Because every one that is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory which overcometh the world, our faith.

And there are three which bear witness upon earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood, and the three are for the same one object.

If we receive the testimony of man, the testimony of God is stronger: for this is the testimony of God which he testified concerning his Son.

He that believeth on the Son of God, hath the testimony in himself; he that believeth not God, hath made him a liar, because he hath not believed on the testimony which God testified of his Son.

And if we know that he heareth us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we receive the petitions, which we have requested, from him.