My dear children, I am writing you this so that you may not sin; yet if anyone does sin, we have in Jesus Christ one who is upright and will intercede for us with the Father.

I am writing to you, fathers, because you know him who has existed from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have been victorious over the evil one. I write to you, children, because you know the Father.

I write to you, fathers, because you know him who has existed from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and God's message is always in your hearts, and you have been victorious over the evil one.

Who is such a liar as the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is the real Antichrist??he man who disowns the Father and the Son.

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

I write you this with reference to those who are trying to mislead you.

If you know that he is upright, you may be sure that everyone who acts uprightly is his child.

And everyone who possesses this hope in him tries to make himself as pure as he is.

No one who keeps in union with him sins. Anyone who sins has never seen him or come to know him.

No one who is a child of God commits sin, for God's nature remains in his heart, and he cannot sin, because he is a child of God.

This is how the children of God and those of the devil can be distinguished: No one who does not act uprightly or who does not love his brother is a child of God.

We must not be like Cain who was a child of the evil one, and butchered his brother. And why did he butcher him? Because his own actions were wicked and his brother's upright.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love is still in death.

But if someone who is rich sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how can he have any love for God in his heart?

All who obey his commands keep in union with him, and he does with them; and this is how we know that he keeps in union with us??y the Spirit which he has given us.

You are children of God, dear children, and you have been victorious over these men, for he who is in our hearts is greater than he who is in the world.

Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God, and everyone who loves is a child of God and knows God.

There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear. For fear suggests punishment and no one who feels fear has attained perfect love.

If anyone says, "I love God," and yet hates his brother, he is a liar; for whoever does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves those who are his children.

For who is there that is victorious over the world except the man who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

It was he, Jesus Christ himself, who came in water and in blood; not in water only, but in water and in blood. The Spirit also testifies to this, for the Spirit is truth.

Whoever believes in the Son of God possesses that testimony in his heart. Anyone who will not believe God has made him a liar, for he has refused to believe the testimony that God has borne to his Son.

I have written this so that you who believe in the Son of God may know that you have eternal life.

And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us power to recognize him who is true; and we are in union with him who is true, through his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.