I am writing to you, little children, that your sins have been forgiven because of his name.

They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world’s perspective and the world listens to them.

(See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God’s children – and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.

By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we may live through him.

Jesus Christ is the one who came by water and blood – not by the water only, but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.