It is what existed from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our own eyes, what we have beheld, what our own hands have touched, about the very message of life --

I repeat, it is what we have seen and heard that we now announce to you, so that you too may share this fellowship with us, for this fellowship that we have is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ;

Let what you have heard from the beginning continue to live in your hearts; if you do, you will always remain in union with the Son and the Father.

See what wonderful love the Father has bestowed on us in letting us be called God's children, and that is what we are! This is why the world does not know what we are, because it has never come to know Him.

Dearly beloved, we are now God's children, but what we are going to be has not been unveiled. We know that if it is unveiled, we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is.

We know what love is from the fact that He laid down His life for us; and so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

and we obtain from Him whatever we ask for, because we practice obedience to His commands and do what pleases Him.

They are children of the world; this is why they speak what the world inspires, and why the world listens to them.