And this is the message which we have heard from him and declare to you, That God is light, and with him there is no darkness.

If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie and observe not 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 known him, if we keep his commandments.

He that says, I have known him, and keeps not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;

but whoever keeps his word, in him truly is the love of God perfected. By this we know that we are in him.

He that says he continues in him, ought also himself so to walk as he walked.

Again, a new commandment I write you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is past and the true light now appears.

He that loves his brother continues in the light, and there is no offense in him;

I write to you, fathers, because you have known him that is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I wrote to you, little children, because you have known the Father.

I wrote to you, fathers, because you have known him that is from the beginning. I wrote to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God continues in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him;

And the anointing which you received from him continues in you, and you have no need that any one should teach you; but as his anointing teaches you of all things, and is true and is not a lie, even as it has taught you, continue in him.

And now, little children, continue in him, that when he shall appear we may have boldness, and not be put to shame by him at his coming.

If you know that he is righteous, you know that every one who does righteousness has been born of him.

See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God. The world therefore knows us not, because it knew him not.

Beloved, now are we children of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be. We know, that if he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

And every one that has this hope in him purifies himself, as he is pure.

And we know that he was manifested to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.

No one that continues in him sins; no one that sins has seen him, or known him.

No one that has been born of God commits sin, for his seed continues in him, and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.

not as Cain was of the evil one and killed his brother; and why did he kill him? because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

Every one that hates his brother is a murderer; and we know that no murderer has eternal life continuing in him.

And whoever has the goods of the world and sees his brother have need, and withholds his compassions from him, how continues the love of God in him?

And by this we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him;

and what we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things which are pleasing in his sight.

And he that keeps his commandments continues in him and he in him; and by this we know that he continues in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

The love of God was manifested to us in this; that God has sent his only Son into the world that we may live through him.

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

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

And we have known and believed the love which God has for us. God is love; and he that continues in love continues in God and God in him.

And we have this commandment from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and every one who loves the Father loves also the Son who is born to him.

He that believes on the Son of God has the testimony in himself; he that believes not God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony which God has testified concerning his Son.

And this is the confidence which we have in respect to him, that if we ask any thing according to his will he hears us.

And if we know that he hears us whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.

If any one sees his brother commit a sin, not to death, he shall ask, and he will give him life, for those who sin not to death. There is a sin to death; I say not that you should pray for it.

We know that every one who has been born of God does not sin, but he that has been born of God keeps himself, and the evil one does not touch him.