'Message' in the Bible

This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

If we say that we have not sinned [refusing to admit acts of sin], we make Him [out to be] a liar [by contradicting Him] and His word is not in us.

But whoever habitually keeps His word and obeys His precepts [and treasures His message in its entirety], in him the love of God has truly been perfected [it is completed and has reached maturity]. By this we know [for certain] that we are in Him:

Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command but an old command that you have had from the beginning. The old command is the message you have heard.

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.

The message that the Son himself declared to us is eternal life.

For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.