I write unto you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because you have conquered the wicked one. I have written unto you, little children, because you have known the Father.

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.

You are of God, little children, and you have conquered them; because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

We are of God: the one knowing God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. From this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

If any one may say, I love God with divine love, and may hate his brother, he is a liar: for the one not loving his brother whom he has seen, with divine love, is not able to love God, whom he has not seen, 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.

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

He is the one having come through water and blood, Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood; the Spirit is the one who bears witness, because the Spirit is the truth.

Because there are three who are bearing witness,

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.

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.