1 That which existed from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we saw and our hands handled, concerning the word of life.
2 The life was manifested and we have seen and testify and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which existed with the Father and was manifested to us.
3 What we have seen and heard, we declare to you also, so that you may also have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.
4 And these things we write, that your joy may be made full.
5 And this is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you: That God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all.
6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him and walk in the darkness, we lie and not do the truth.
7 But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with 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 that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His word is not in us.
1 My little children, these things write I to you, so you may not sin. And if anyone sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
2 And he is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
3 And hereby we truly know that we truly know him: If we keep his commandments.
4 He that says: I know him, and does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
5 But who keeps his word, in him truly has the love of God been perfected. Hereby we know that we are in him.
6 He that says he abides in him, ought also walk even as he walked.
7 Beloved, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard.
8 But now, a new commandment I write to you, which thing is true in him and in you. Because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shines.
9 He that says he is in the light and hates his brother, he remains in the darkness.
10 He that loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no occasion of stumbling in him.
11 But he that hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he goes, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
12 I write to you little children, because your sins are forgiven you, for his name's sake.
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 have written to you little children, because you know the Father.
14 I have written to you fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you young men, because you are strong and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.
15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the vain glory of life, is not of the Father but is of the world.
17 And the world passes away and the lust of it, but he that does the will of God abides for ever.
18 Little children, it is the last hour; and as you heard that antichrist comes, even now have there arisen many antichrists. Whereby we know that it is the last hour.
19 They went out from us but they were not of us. For if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out, that they might be revealed, that all these are not of us.
20 And you have an anointing from the Holy One and you know all these things.
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 that denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist: he that denies the Father and the Son.
23 Whoever denies the Son, the same has not the Father. He that confesses the Son has the Father also.
24 As for you, let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also shall abide in the Son and in the Father.
25 And this is the promise which he promised us- everlasting life.
26 These things have I written to you concerning those that would lead you astray.
27 And as for you, the anointing which you received of him abides in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you all things and is true and is no lie and even as it taught you, so you are to abide in him.
28 And now, little children, abide in him. That, when he shall be manifested, we may have boldness and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
29 If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone also that does righteousness is begotten of him.
1 Look what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God. And we are! For this cause the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.
2 Beloved, now are we children of God; and it is not yet revealed what we shall be. We know that, when He shall be manifested, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him even as He is.
3 And everyone that has this hope purifies himself, even as He is pure.
4 Everyone that keeps on committing sin commits lawlessness, for sin is lawlessness.
5 And you know that he was manifested to take away sins; because in him is no sin.
6 Whoever abides in him does not keep on in sin. Whoever keeps on in sin has not seen him, nor truly knows him.
7 My little children, let no one lead you astray. He that does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
8 He that keeps on in sin is of the Devil. For the Devil sins from the beginning. To this end was the Son of God manifested, that he might destroy the works of the Devil.
9 Whoever is begotten of God does not keep on in sin, because his seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on in sin, because he is begotten of God.
10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the Devil. Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he that does not love his brother.
11 For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
12 Not as Cain, who was of the evil one, who killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because his works were evil and his brother's righteous.
13 Marvel not brothers if the world hates you.
14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He that does not love abides in death.
15 Whoever hates his brothers is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
16 Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
17 But whosoever has the world's goods and sees his brothers in need, and shuts up his compassion from him, how does the love of God abide in him?
18 Little children, let us not love in word, nor with the tongue, but in deed and truth.
19 Hereby shall we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our heart before him.
20 Because 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 boldness toward God.
22 And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments, and do the things that are pleasing in His sight.
23 And this is His commandment: that we should believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as He gave us commandment.
24 And he that keeps His commandments abides in Him and He in him. And hereby we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit which He gave us.
1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God. Because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
2 Hereby do you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ came in the flesh is of God.
3 And every spirit that does not confess that Jesus came in the flesh is not of God, and they are proved to be of the antichrist; of whom you have heard that it comes, and now is already in the world.
4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them. Because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.
5 They are of the world. Therefore speak they of the world and the world hears them.
6 We are of God. He that knows God hears us. He who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
7 Beloved, let us love one another. For love is of God, and everyone that loves is begotten of God and knows God.
8 He that does not love, does not know God. For God is love.
9 Herein was the love of God manifested to us, in that God has sent His only Son into the world that we might live through him.
10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation 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 abides in us, and His love is perfected in us.
13 Hereby we know that we abide in him and He in us, because He has given us of his Spirit.
14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
15 Whoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him and he in God.
16 And we know and have believed the love which God has toward us. God is love, and he that abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
17 In this way is love made perfect with us, so that we may have boldness in the day of judgment. Because as he is, even so are we in this world.
18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; because fear has punishment, and he that fears is not made perfect in love.
19 We love, because He first loved us.
20 If a man says, I love God, and hates his fellow believers, he is a liar. For he that does not love his fellow believers whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.
21 And this commandment have we from him, that he who loves God, loves his fellow believers also.
1 God's Children Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is begotten of God; and whoever loves Him that begat, loves him also that is begotten of Him.
2 Hereby 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 keep His commandments; and His commandments are not grievous.
4 For whatever is begotten of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world, our faith.
5 And who is he that overcomes the world, but he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
6 This is he that came by water and blood, Jesus Christ. Not with the water only, but with the water and with the blood.
7 And it is the Spirit that testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.
8 For there are three who testify, the spirit and the water and the blood; and the three agree in one.
9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater. For the witness of God is this, that He has testified concerning His Son.
10 He that believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself. He that does not believe God has made Him a liar; because he has not believed in the witness that God has given concerning His Son.
11 And the witness is this: that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
12 He that has the Son has life. He that does not have the Son of God does not have life.
13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.
14 And this is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
15 And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we obtain the requests we have asked of him.
16 If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not unto death, he shall ask and God will give him life for them that sin not to death. There is a sin unto death. Not concerning this do I say that he should make requests.
17 All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not unto death.
18 We know that whoever is begotten of God does not keep on in sin; but he that was begotten of God keeps himself, and the evil one touches him not.
19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
20 And we know that the Son of God came, and has given us an understanding so that we truly know him that is true; and we are in him that is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.
21 Little children, guard yourselves from idols.