My dear children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin. And if anyone sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ [the] righteous;
and he is [the] propitiation for our sins, and not only for ours, but also for the whole world.
And herein we know that we have known him, if we keep his commandments.
He that saith, I have known him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily the love of God hath been perfected. Herein we know that we are in him.
He that saith he abideth in him ought, even as he walked, himself also to walk.
Beloved, no new commandment I write to you, but an old commandment, which ye had from [the] beginning: the old commandment is the word which ye heard.
Again, a new commandment I write to you, which thing is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing, and the true light already shineth.
He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in the darkness until now.
He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is no occasion of stumbling in him.
But he that hateth his brother is in the darkness, and walketh in the darkness, and knoweth not where he goeth, because the darkness blinded his eyes.
I write to you, dear children, because your sins have been forgiven you for his name’s sake.
I write to you, fathers, because ye have known him [that is] from [the] beginning; I write to you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one; I write to you, little children, because ye have known the Father.
I wrote to you, fathers, because ye have known him [that is] from [the] beginning.
Love not the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loveth the world, the love of the Father is not in him:
because all that [is] in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
And the world is passing, and its lust; but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever.
Little children, it is [the] last hour, and even as ye heard that antichrist cometh, even now many antichrists have come, whence we know that it is [the] last hour.
From us they went out, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have abode with us, but [they went out] that they might be manifested that none are of us.
And ye have anointing from the Holy One, and know all things.
I wrote not to you, because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
Who is the liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is the antichrist that denieth the Father and the Son.
Every one that denieth the Son hath not the Father either; he that confesseth the Son hath the Father also.
As for you, let what ye heard from [the] beginning abide in you: if what ye heard from the beginning abide in you, ye also shall abide in the Son and in the Father.
And this is the promise which he promised us, life eternal.
These things I wrote to you concerning those that lead you astray.
And as for you, the anointing which ye received from him abideth in you, and ye have no need that anyone should teach you; but as the same anointing teacheth you, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, ye abide in him.
And now, dear children, abide in him that, if he be manifested, we may have boldness, and not be put to shame from before him at his coming.
If ye know that he is righteous, know that every one that doeth righteousness hath been begotten of him.