It is of what has been in existence from the Beginning, of what we have heard, of what we have seen with our eyes, of what we watched reverently and touched with our hands--it is about the Word who is the Life that we are now writing.

My children, I am writing to you to keep you from sinning; but if any one should sin, we have one who can plead for us with the Father--Jesus Christ, the Righteous--

The man who says 'I know Jesus,' but does not lay his commands to heart, is a liar, and the Truth has no place in him;

He who professes to maintain union with God is himself bound to live as Christ lived.

He who says that he is in the Light, and yet hates his Brother, is in the Darkness even now.

He who loves his Brother is always in the Light, and there is nothing within him to cause him to stumble;

while he who hates his Brother is in the Darkness, and is living in the Darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the Darkness prevents his seeing.

I am writing, Fathers, to you, because you have learned to know him who has been from the Beginning. I am writing, Young Men, to you, because you have conquered the Evil One. I write, Children, to you, because you have learned to know the Father.

I write, Fathers, to you, because you have learned to know him who has been from the Beginning. I write, Young Men, to you, because you are strong, and God's Message is always in your hearts, and you have conquered the Evil One.

And the world, and all that it gratifies, is passing away, but he who does God's will remains for ever.

Who is a liar, if not the man who rejects the truth that Jesus is the Christ? He is the Anti-Christ--The man who rejects the Father and the Son.

No one who rejects the Son has found the Father; he who acknowledges the Son has found the Father also.

In writing thus to you, I have in mind those who are trying to mislead you.

Knowing him to be righteous, you realize that every one who lives righteously has received the new Life from him.

And every one who has this hope with regard to Christ tries to make himself pure--as Christ is pure.

Every one who lives sinfully is living in violation of Law. Sin is violation of Law.

No one who maintains union with him lives in sin; no one who lives in sin has ever really seen him or learned to know him.

My Children, do not let any one mislead you. He who lives righteously is righteous--as Christ is righteous.

He who lives sinfully belongs to the Devil, for the Devil has sinned from the first. It was for this that the Son of God appeared, that he might undo the Devil's work.

No one who has received the new Life from God lives sinfully, because the very nature of God dwells within him; and he cannot live in sin, because he has received the new Life from God.

By this the Children of God are distinguished from the Children of the Devil--No one who lives unrighteously comes from God, and especially the man who does not love his Brother.

We must not be like Cain, who belonged to the Evil One and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? It was because his life was bad while his brother's was good.

We know that we have passed out of Death into Life, because we love our Brothers. The man who does not love remains in a state of Death.

Every one who hates his Brother is a murderer; and you know that no murderer has Immortal Life within him.

And he who lays his commands to heart maintains union with Christ, and Christ with him. And by this we know that Christ maintains union with us--by our possession of the Spirit which he gave us.

You, my Children, come from God, and you have successfully resisted such men as these, because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

We come from God. He who knows God listens to us; the man who does not come from God does not listen to us. By that we may know the true inspiration from the false.

Dear friends, let us love one another, because Love comes from God; and every one who loves has received the new Life from God and knows God.

He who does not love has not learned to know God; for God is Love.

And, moreover, we have learned to know, and have accepted as a fact, the love which God has for us. God is Love; and he who lives in love lives in God, and God in him.

There is no fear in love. No! Love, when perfect, drives out fear, for fear implies punishment, and the man who feels fear has not attained to perfect love.

If a man says 'I love God,' and yet hates his Brother, he is a liar; for the man who does not love his Brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

Indeed, we have this Command from God-- 'He who loves God must also love his Brother.'

Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ has received the new Life from God; and every one who loves him who gave that Life loves him who has received it.

Who is he that conquers the world but the man who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

He who believes in the Son of God has that testimony within him. He who does not believe God has made God a liar, by refusing to believe in that testimony which he has borne about his Son.

He who finds the Son finds Life; he who does not find the Son of God does not find Life.

I write this to you, that you may realize that you have found Immortal Life--you who believe in the Name of the Son of God.

We know that no one who has received the new Life from God lives in sin. No, he who has received the new Life from God keeps the thought of God in his heart, and then the Evil One does not touch him.