And this is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light and there [is] no darkness in him at all.

If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.

If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments.

The one who says "I have come to know him," and does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in this person.

But whoever keeps his word, truly in this person the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in him.

The one who says [that he] resides in him ought also to walk just as that one walked.

Again, I am writing a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light already is shining.

The one who loves his brother resides in the light, and [there] is no cause for stumbling in him.

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

And [as for] you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you do not have need that anyone teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all [things], and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you reside in him.

And now, little children, remain in him, so that whenever he is revealed we may have confidence and not be put to shame before him at his coming.

If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered by him.

See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called children of God, and we are! Because of this the world does not know us: because it did not know him.

Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever he is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is.

And everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as that one is pure.

And you know that that one was revealed in order that he might take away sins, and in him [there] is no sin.

Everyone who resides in him does not sin. Everyone who sins has neither seen him nor known him.

Everyone who is fathered by God does not practice sin, because his seed resides in him, and [he is] not able to sin, because he has been fathered by God.

not as Cain, who was of the evil one and violently murdered his brother. And {for what reason} did he violently murder him? Because his deeds were evil and the [deeds] of his brother [were] righteous.

Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that every murderer does not have eternal life residing in him.

But whoever has the world's material possessions and observes his brother {in need} and shuts his heart against him, how does the love of God reside in him?

By this we know that we are of the truth and will convince our heart before him,

and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do [what is] pleasing {in his sight}.

And the one who keeps his commandments resides in him, and he in him. And by this we know that he resides in us: by the Spirit whom he has given to us.

By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God sent his one and only Son into the world in order that we may live through him.

By this we know that we reside in him and he in us: that he has given us of his Spirit.

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God resides in him and he in God.

And we have come to know and have believed the love that God has in us. God is love, and the one who resides in love resides in God, and God resides in him.

And this [is] the commandment we have from him: that the one who loves God should love his brother also.

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been fathered by God, and everyone who loves {the father} also loves the [child] fathered by him.

(The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. The one who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified concerning his Son.)

And this is the confidence that we have before him: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

And if we know that he hears us [in] whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked from him.

If anyone should see his brother sinning a sin not [leading] to death, he should ask, and he will grant life to him, to those who sin not [leading] to death. ([There] is a sin [leading] to death; I do not say that he should ask about that.

We know that everyone who is fathered by God does not sin, but the one fathered by God, he protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.