He who says, 'I know him,' but does not obey his commands, is a liar and the truth is not in him;

he who says he 'remains in him' ought to live as he lived.

He who says he is 'in the light' and hates his brother, is in darkness still.

He who loves his brother remains in the light ??and in the light there is no pitfall;

but he who hates his brother is in darkness, he walks in darkness and does not know where he is going, for the darkness has blinded his eyes.

fathers, I am writing to you, because you know him who is from the very beginning: young men, I am writing to you, because you have conquered the evil One. Children, I have written to you, because you know the Father:

fathers, I have written to you, because you know him who is from the very beginning: young men, I have written to you, because you are strong, and the word of God remains within you, and you have conquered the evil One.

and the world is passing away with its desire, while he who does the will of God remains for ever.

Who is the real liar? who but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is 'antichrist,' he who disowns the Father and the Son.

No one who disowns the Son can possess the Father: he who confesses the Son possesses the Father as well.

I am writing to you in this way about those who would deceive you,

As you know he is just, be sure that everyone who practises righteousness is born of him.

And everyone who rests this hope on him, purifies himself as he is pure.

Everyone who commits sin commits lawlessness: sin is lawlessness,

anyone who remains in him does not sin ??anyone who sins has neither seen nor known him.

Let no one deceive you, my dear children: he who practises righteousness is just, as He is just;

he who commits sin belongs to the devil, for the devil is a sinner from the very beginning. (This is why the Son of God appeared, to destroy the deeds of the devil.)

Anyone who is born of God does not commit sin, for the offspring of God remain in Him, and they cannot sin, because they are born of God.

Here is how the children of God and the children of the devil are recognized; anyone who does not practise righteousness does not belong to God, and neither does he who has no love for his brother.

we are not to be like Cain, who belonged to the evil One and slew his brother. And why did he slay him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's just.

We know we have crossed from death to life, because we love the brotherhood; he who has no love [for his brother] remains in death.

Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining within him.

he who obeys his commands remains within him ??and He remains within him. And this is how we may be sure he remains within us, by means of the Spirit he has given us.

My dear children, you belong to God, and you have conquered all such, for He who is within you is greater than he who is in the world.

we belong to God ??he who knows God listens to us, he who does not belong to God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

Beloved, let us love one another, for love belongs to God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God;

he who does not love, does not know God, for God is love.

well, we do know, we have believed, the love God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

Love has no dread in it; no, love in its fulness drives all dread away, for dread has to do with punishment ??anyone who has dread, has not reached the fulness of love.

If anyone declares, 'I love God,' and yet hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who will not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot possibly love the God whom he has never seen.

And we get this command from him, that he who loves God is to love his brother as well.

Everyone who believes Jesus is the Christ, is born of God; and everyone who loves the Father, loves the sons born of him.

Who is the world's conqueror but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

Jesus Christ, he it is who came by water, blood, and Spirit ??not by the water alone, but by the water and the blood.

He who believes in the Son of God possesses that testimony within himself; he who will not believe God, has made God a liar by refusing to believe the testimony which God has borne to his Son.

He who possesses the Son possesses life: he who does not possess the Son does not possess life.

I have written in this way to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may be sure you have life eternal.

If anyone notices his brother committing a sin which is not deadly, he will ask and obtain life for him ??for anyone who does not commit a deadly sin. There is such a thing as deadly sin; I do not mean he is to pray for that.

We know that anyone who is born of God does not sin; He who was born of God preserves him, and the evil One never catches him.

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us insight to know Him who is the Real God; and we are in Him who is real, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the real God, this is life eternal.