If we confess our sins, He is to be depended on, since He is just, to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from every wrong.

Dear children, it is [now] the last hour [i.e., the final period of God's dealing with people on earth], and since you have heard that an antichrist [i.e., a person who is against Christ] is coming, even now [you should be aware that] many antichrists have [already] come. This is [one way] we know that this is the last hour.

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.

Since you know that He is righteous, be assured also that the man who habitually acts righteously is a child of His.

[But] the person who continues to live a sinful life belongs to the devil, because the devil has continued to sin since the beginning [See Gen. 3]. For this is the reason that the Son of God came [into the world]; it was to destroy the works [i.e., the influence of] the devil [in people's lives].

since we know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren: he, that loveth not his brother, remaineth in death.

Dear friends, since God loved us thus, we, surely, ought to love one another.

Love is complete with us when we have absolute confidence about the day of judgment, since in this world we are living as He lives.

Fear is a stranger to love; for perfect loves excludes all fear: since pain is the object of fear, he that is affected with fear, cannot be sincere in his love.

let us love him; since he first loved us.

and in this we know that we love the children of God, since we love God and keep his commandments.

And if we know [for a fact, as indeed we do] that He hears and listens to us in whatever we ask, we [also] know [with settled and absolute knowledge] that we have [granted to us] the requests which we have asked from Him.