It is of what has existed from the beginning, of what we have listened to, of what we have seen with our own eyes, of what we have witnessed and touched with our own heads, it is concerning the Logos of Life that we are now writing.

And the Life was made visible, and we have seen it and are bearing witness, and are bringing you word of that Eternal Life which was face to face with the Father and was made visible to us.

It is what we have seen and heard that we are announcing to you, in order that you also may have partnership with us; and our partnership is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

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.

If we say, "We have partnership with Him," when we are passing our life in the darkness, we are lying and are not doing the truth.

But is we are passing our life in the light, as he is in the light, we ever have partnership with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ is cleansing us from every sin.

If we say, "We have no sin," we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.

If we say, "We have not sinned," we are making him a liar, and his word is not in us.

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.

I am writing to you, little children, because you sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.

I have written to you, fathers, because you have learned to know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God is abiding in you, and you have fully overcome the Evil One.

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.

and the world and its lusts are passing away, but he who ever does the will of God abides forever.

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.

They came forth from us, but they did not belong to us. If they had belonged to us they would certainly have remained with us, but they went out that they might be manifest that they all are not of us.

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.

We are God's children now, beloved; what we shall be has never yet been made manifest. But we know that when he is manifested we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is.

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 are not to be like Cain, who belonged to the Evil One, and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? It was because his own deeds were evil, and his brother's, righteous.

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

and whatever we ask we are receiving from him, because we are keeping his commandments and doing those things that are pleasing in his sight.

Do not believe every spirit, beloved, but test the spirits to see whether they are of God; for many false prophets are gone out into the world.

My little children, you are of God and have conquered them; because he that is within you is greater than he that is 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.

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.

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

For there are three who bear testimony, the Spirit, and the water,

and the blood; and the three are one.

And if we know that he is listening to us in what ever we are asking, we know that we obtain the petitions which we have made to him.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world is lying in the Evil One.

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.