Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the proud glory of life, is not from the Father, but from the world;

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

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.

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."

We know that we have migrated, out of death into life, because we love our brothers. He who has no love is abiding in death.

Every one who is hating his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

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?

My children, let us not love in word nor in talk, but in deed and in 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.

Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God; and every one that loves us a child of God.

He who does not love, does not know God; for God is love.

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.

If God so loved us, beloved, we also ought to love one another.

No man has ever gazed on God; but if we love one another, God ever abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

And we do know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love; and he who is abiding in love is abiding in God, and God is abiding in him.

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.

Fear does not exist in love; but love, when it is perfect, drives out fear. For fear has always torment, and he who has fear is not yet perfected in love.

We love because He loved us first.

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

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.

For love to God means obeying his commandments; and his commandments are not irksome.

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

He who has the Son has the life; he who has not the Son of God has not the life.

I have written these words to you so that you may know that you have eternal life, you who believe in the name of the Son of God.

If any one sees his brother committing a sin that is not deadly, he shall ask, and God will give him life, for any one who is not committing a deadly sin. There is a deadly sin; concerning that I do not say that he should pray.

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.

The Elder to the Elect Lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not only I, but also all those who have come to know the truth.

I love you for the sake of the truth which is abiding in us and will be with us forever.

Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us from God the Father, and from Jesus Christ the Father's Son, in truth and love.

And now I am entreating you, Lady, not as though I were writing some new commandment to you, but one which we have had from the beginning, let us love one another.

And this is love, that we should lead our lives according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should pass your life in love.

The Elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.

For I was glad when brothers came and bore testimony to your truth, as indeed you are passing your life in truth.

They have borne testimony to your love before the church. You will do well to speed them on their way worthily of God;

I have written somewhat to the church; but Diotrephes, who love to take the lead among them, does not receive me.

May mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you.

These are they who are stains upon your love-feasts; when they feast sumptuously without scruple, looking after none but themselves. They are clouds without water, driven along by the winds; trees of autumn, fruitless, doubly dead, torn up by the roots,

must keep yourselves in the love of God, while waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, which ends in life eternal.

But I have this against you, that you have left your first love.

He who has an ear, let him listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. To him that overcomes, to him will I give to eat from the tree of life which is in the garden of God.

And unto the angel of the Church in Smyrna, write. These are the words of the First and the Last, he who died and has returned to life.

Fear not what you are about to suffer! Behold, the devil is indeed going to put some of you in prison, that you may be tested, and you will have persecution for ten days. Be faithful even unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.

I know your works and your love and faith and service and endurance; I know that your last works are more than the first.

He who overcomes shall thus be clad in white raiment; and I will in no wise blot out his name from the book of life, and I will own his name before my Father, and before his angels.

All whom I love I reprove and discipline; therefore be full of zeal and repent.

Of the tribe of Symeon, twelve thousand; Of the tribe of Levi, twelve thousand; Of the tribe of Issachar, twelve thousand;

And I looked and I heard a solitary eagle flying in mid-heaven, and crying with a loud voice, "Woe, woe, woe for all who live on the earth, Because of the rest of the trumpet-blasts That the three angels are about to blow!"

And after three days and a half the breath of life from God entered into them, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell upon them.

And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb, And by the word of their testimony; And they loved not their life, even unto death.

So he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle (those who live in his tabernacle in heaven).

and each one whose name has not been written in the Lamb's book of life, the Lamb who has been slain from the foundation of the world. All who dwell on the earth shall worship him.

And he deceives those who dwell on the earth, because of the miracles, which he is permitted to perform in the sight of the beast. He tells those who live on the earth to make an image to the beast who had the sword-stroke, yet lived.

with whom the kings of the earth have committed adultery, while all who live on the earth have been made drunken by the wine of her immorality."

The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to come up out of the bottomless pit, and to go into perdition. And those who dwell on the earth shall wonder, those whose names have never, from the foundation of the world, been written in the Lamb's Book of Life, when they gaze on the beast; how he was and is not, and is to come.

The rest of the dead did not live until the thousand years were completed. This is the first resurrection.

And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne; and books were opened, and another book??he Book of Life??as opened; and the dead were judged according to their deeds, by what was written in the books.

And if any one was found who was not written in the Book of Life, he was hurled into the lake of fire.

He also said: "It has now come to pass. I am the Alpha and the Omega, The Beginning and the End. To him who thirsts I will freely give Of the spring of the Water of life.

There will not enter it anything profane, Nor any who work abominations and a lie; But only those who are written In the Lamb's Book of Life.

And he showed me the river of the Water of Life, clear as crystal, Flowing out from the throne of God, and of the Lamb,

In the middle of the broad street of the City. On each side of the river was a Tree of Life, Bearing twelve kinds of fruit, Each month yielding its own fruit. And the leaves of the tree Were for the healing of the nations.

"Blessed are they who wash their robes, so that they may have right to the Tree of Life, and may enter in by the gates into the City.

Without are the dogs, the sorcerers, the immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and all who live and make a lie.

"And the Spirit and the Bride say 'Come!' And let him who hears, say 'Come!' And let him who thirsts, come; And whoever wills, let him take the Water of Life freely."

and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the Tree of Life, and in the Holy City, about which this book is written.