1 We have heard that which was from the beginning. We have also seen it with our own eyes. We looked at it and touched it with our hands. It is the Word of life.
2 The life was made known and we have seen and testify about it. We declare the life to you. It is the eternal life, which was with the Father and was shown to us.
3 We declare to you what we have seen and heard. This way you may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ!
4 We write these things that our joy may be made full complete .
5 This is the message we heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
6 If we say we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and do not live practice the truth.
7 If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
10 If we say we have not sinned we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
1 My little children, I write you these things that you may not sin. If any man sin, we have an Advocate intercessor comforter helper with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous!
2 He is the propitiation Greek: hilasmos: atonement, compensation for our sins. Not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
3 We know that we know him, when we obey his commandments.
4 He who says: I know him, and does not obey his commandments is a liar! The truth is not in him.
5 Whoever obeys his Word; the love of God is made perfect complete mature in him. By this we know that we are in union with him.
6 He that says he lives in union with him should walk as he walked.
7 Beloved, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment you had from the beginning. This old commandment is the word that you heard.
8 Then again, I do write a new commandment to you. This is true in him and in you. The darkness is passing away, and the true light already shines.
9 He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in the darkness!
10 He who loves his brother lives in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling offence in him.
11 But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness. He does not know where he goes because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
12 I write to you, my little children, because your sins are forgiven on account of his name.
13 I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you know the Father.
14 I write to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God lives in you, and you have overcome the evil one.
15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 The entire world, the desire of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of material wealth, is not from the Father, but is from the world.
17 The world and its desires lusts are passing away; but he who does the will of God lives forever.
18 Little children, it is the last hour! You heard that the antichrist is coming. Even now many antichrists have come. That is how we know that it is the last hour.
19 They went out from us, but they were not of us. If they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they went out that it made it plain that they all are not of us.
20 You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know.
21 I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.
22 Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, even he who denies the Father and the Son.
23 Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also.
24 As for you, let that live in you, which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning lives in you, you will also live in the Son, and in the Father.
25 This is the promise he promised us, life eternal.
26 I write you these things concerning those who would lead you astray.
27 The anointing special endowment of Holy Spirit you received from Him is a part of you is with you and you do not need anyone any human to teach you. His anointing taught you concerning all things. It is no lie. It is truth, just as you were taught you live through him.
28 Now, my little children dwell Greek: meno: stay, dwell, be present with him. If he shall be made known we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming presence being near .
29 If you know that he is righteous you know that every one who practices righteousness is born of him.
1 Observe the love the Father gave to us that we should be called the children of God. That is what we are! For this reason the world does not know us. This is because it did not know him.
2 Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be. We know that when he is revealed we will be like him. We will see him just as he is.
3 Everyone who has this hope in him is purified. He is pure.
4 Everyone who practices exercises sin also commits lawlessness, because sin is lawlessness.
5 You know that he appeared to take away sins. There is no sin in him!
6 Whoever abides in him does not sin. Whoever sins has not seen him and does not know him.
7 My little children let no man deceive you! He who practices righteousness is righteous, even as he Christ is righteous.
8 He who sins is of the devil. For the devil sinned from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was made known manifested , that he might destroy the works of the devil.
9 Whoever is born of God does not practice sin! His seed abides in him and he cannot sin because he has been born of God.
10 In this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed. Whoever does not practice righteousness is not from God. He who does not love his brother is not from God.
11 This is the message you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another!
12 We should not be like Cain who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he murder him? It was because his works were evil, and his brother's were righteous.
13 Do not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you.
14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who does not love abides in death.
15 Whoever hates his brother is a murderer! You know that no murderer has everlasting life remaining in him.
16 By this we know love, because he Jesus gave his life for us. We ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
17 Whoever has this world's goods and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his compassion from him, how does the love of God dwell in him?
18 My Little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.
19 By this we shall know we are of the truth, and will assure our heart before him.
20 If our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.
21 Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us we have confidence toward God.
22 Whatever we ask we receive from Him because we obey His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight.
23 This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another. He gave us this commandment!
24 The one who obeys God's commandments lives in God, and God lives in with Him. We know that He lives in with us by the Spirit He gave us.
1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit. Test the spirits to see whether they are from God. This is because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
2 Here is how you know the Spirit of God, every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ came in the flesh is from God.
3 Every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist that you heard was coming and now it is already in the world.
4 You are of God, my little children. You have overcome them because he that is in you is greater than he that is in the world.
5 They are from the world. They speak that which is from the world and the world listens to them.
6 We are from God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the vital principle spirit of truth, and the principle spirit of deception error .
7 Beloved let us love one another, for love is from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
8 He who does not love does not know God for God is love.
9 The love of God was made known through us. God sent his only-begotten Son into the world that we might live through him.
10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation atonement sacrificial payment for our sins.
11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
12 No one has seen God at any time! If we love one another, God lives with us, and his love is perfected accomplished matured through us.
13 We know that we live with him and he with us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
14 We see and testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.
15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives with him, and he with God.
16 We know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love! He who continues with love lives with God and God lives with him.
17 This is love made perfect through us, that we may have boldness in the Day of Judgment. Just as he is, we are, amid exposed to this world.
18 There is no fear in love. Perfect mature love throws out expels fear because fear involves restraint punishment . He who fears is not made perfect mature complete through love.
19 We love, because he first loved us.
20 If a man says, I love God, yet he hates his brother, he is a liar! He who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.
21 We have this commandment from him, that he who loves God should love his brother also.
1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. Whoever loves him that causes the birth also loves him that is born.
2 This is how we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do his commandments.
3 For this is the love of God, that we obey his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.
4 Everything born from God conquers the world. This is the victory that has conquered the world, even our faith.
5 Who is the one who conquers overcomes prevails over the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
6 This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ. He did not come with the water only, but with the water and with the blood. The Spirit gives witness because it is the truth.
7 There are three that testify: Latin Vulgate: tres testimonium: three that testify.
8 The Spirit, the water, and the blood, and the three are in agreement accord concurrence harmony . Latin Vulgate: Spiritus et aqua et sanguis et tres unum: Spirit, water, and blood are united.
9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater. The witness of God is this, that he gave witness concerning his Son.
10 He who believes in the Son of God has the witness in him. He who does not believe God made him a liar because he does not believe the testimony God gives concerning his Son.
11 The testimony is this that God gave us everlasting life and this life is in his Son.
12 He who has the Son has the life. He who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.
13 I wrote these things so you who believe in the name of the Son of God may know you have everlasting life.
14 This is the confidence that we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
15 If we know that he hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions requests that we have asked of him.
16 If any man see his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he will ask, and God will give him life for them that sin not leading to death. There is a sin that leads to death. I do not say that he should make request concerning this.
17 All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not leading to death.
18 We know that no one who is born of God practices sin. He who was born from God watches over himself, and the evil one does not touch him.
19 We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the under control of the evil one.
20 We know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding. We know him that is true for we are in him who is true, and in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and everlasting life.
21 My little children guard protect yourselves from idols.