And we are writing all this to you that our joy may be complete.

This, then, is the message that we have heard from him, and are announcing to you, that God is light, and no darkness what ever is in him.

My children, I am writing this to you that you may not continue to sin; but if any one sin, we ever have a Comforter before the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous.

This is how we may know that we have come to know Him, by always keeping his commandments.

and the truth is not in him; bit if any man obey his word, in him truly is the love of God made perfect. By this we come to know that we are in him.

My children, this is the last hour, and as you have heard that an antichrist was coming, and now many antichrists are already risen, whence we may know that it is the last hour.

Who is the liar if not the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, even he who disowns the Father and the Son.

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

I have written this to you concerning those who would lead you astray.

Behold what manner of love the Father has given us in allowing us to be called "Children of God!" And that is what we are. For this reason the world does not recognize us, because it did not know him.

And every one who is holding this hope in him is purifying himself, even as he is pure.

He who is committing sin is of the devil, because from the beginning of the devil is sinning. It was for this cause that the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil; for every one who does not work righteousness is not a child of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.

For this is the message that you have listened to from the beginning, "WE ARE TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER."

By this we learn to know love, because he laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

But whoever has this world's goods, and beholds his brother in need, and shuts up his heart against him, how can the love of God continue to abide in him?

By this we shall come to know that we are really of the truth,

His commandment is this, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another as he has commanded us to do.

He who keeps his commandments is abiding in Him, and Christ in him. By this we know that Christ is abiding in us, by the Spirit which he has given us.

By this you know the Spirit of God; every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is from God;

and every spirit which confesses him not, is not from God. And this is that spirit of Antichrist of which you have heard that it is coming, and that now it is already in the world.

They are of the world, and for this reason they speak as of the world, and the world listens to them.

But you are of God. He who is beginning to know God listens to us; he who is not of God does not listen to us. By this we may distinguish the spirit of truth from the spirit of error.

In this was the love of God clearly shown toward us, by his sending his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins.

By this we come to know that we are abiding in him, and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit;

In this is love made perfect with us, so that we may have cheerful confidence in the Day of Judgment, because we are living in this world as He lives.

And we have this command from God: HE WHO LOVES GOD IS TO LOVE HIS BROTHER ALSO.

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.

If we accept men's testimony, the testimony of God is greater; for this is the testimony of God, that he has borne testimony concerning his Son.

And the testimony is this, "God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son."

Now the confidence which we have in him is this, that he listens to us whenever we ask anything that is in accordance with his will.

And we know that the Son of God is come, and has granted us and understanding, so that we may come to know him who is true. And we are in him who is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and life eternal.