This is the Message which we have heard from the Lord Jesus and now deliver to you--God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness.

If, while we are living in darkness, we profess to have fellowship with Him, we speak falsely and are not adhering to the truth.

If we deny that we have sinned, we make Him a liar, and His Message has no place in our hearts.

And by this we may know that we know Him--if we obey His commands.

He who professes to know Him, and yet does not obey His commands, is a liar, and the truth has no place in his heart.

But whoever obeys His Message, in him love for God has in very deed reached perfection. By this we can know that we are in Him.

The man who professes to be continuing in Him is himself also bound to live as He lived.

I am writing to you, fathers, because you know Him who has existed from the very beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the Evil one. I have written to you, children, because you know the Father.

I have written to you, fathers, because you know Him who has existed from the very beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong and God's Message still has a place in your hearts, and you have overcome the Evil one.

Who is a liar compared with him who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He who disowns the Father and the Son is the anti-Christ.

And as for you, the anointing which you received from Him remains within you, and there is no need for any one to teach you. But since His anointing gives you instruction in all things--and is true and is no falsehood--you are continuing in union with Him even as it has taught you to do.

And now, dear children, continue in union with Him; so that, if He re-appears, we may have perfect confidence, and may not shrink away in shame from His presence at His Coming.

See what marvellous love the Father has bestowed upon us--that we should be called God's children: and that is what we are. For this reason the world does not recognize us--because it has not known Him.

Dear friends, we are now God's children, but what we are to be in the future has not yet been fully revealed. We know that if Christ reappears we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is.

And every man who has this hope fixed on Him, purifies himself so as to be as pure as He is.

And you know that He appeared in order to take away sins; and in Him there is no sin.

No one who continues in union with Him lives in sin: no one who lives in sin has seen Him or knows Him.

No one who is a child of God is habitually guilty of sin. A God-given germ of life remains in him, and he cannot habitually sin--because he is a child of God.

We are not to resemble Cain, who was a child of the Evil one and killed his own brother. And why did he kill him? Because his own actions were wicked and his brother's actions righteous.

Every one who hates his brother man is a murderer; and you know that no murderer has the Life of the Ages continuing in him.

But if any one has this world's wealth and sees that his brother man is in need, and yet hardens his heart against him--how can such a one continue to love God?

and whatever we ask for we obtain from Him, because we obey His commands and do the things which are pleasing in His sight.

The man who obeys His commands continues in union with God, and God continues in union with him; and through His Spirit whom He has given us we can know that He continues in union with us.

God's love for us has been manifested in that He has sent His only Son into the world so that we may have Life through Him.

We can know that we are continuing in union with Him and that He is continuing in union with us, by the fact that He has given us a portion of His Spirit.

Whoever acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God--God continues in union with him, and he continues in union with God.

And, as for us, we know the love which God has for us, and we confide in it. God is love, and he who continues to love continues in union with God, and God continues in union with him.

And the command which we have from Him is that he who loves God must love his brother man also.

Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God; and every one who loves the Father loves also Him who is the Father's Child.

He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in his own heart: he who does not believe God has made Him a liar, in that he has refused to accept the testimony which God has given about His Son.

And since we know that He listens to us, then whatever we ask, we know that we have the things which we have asked from Him.

If any one sees a brother man committing a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask and God shall give him life--for those who do not sin unto death. There is such a thing as sin unto death; for that I do not bid him make request.

We know that no one who is a child of God lives in sin, but He who is God's Child keeps him, and the Evil one cannot touch him.