The one who has the Son has this eternal life; the one who does not have the Son of God does not have this eternal life.

Everyone who denies the Son does not have the Father either. The person who confesses the Son has the Father also.

Nevertheless you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know.

Dear friends, if our conscience does not condemn us, we have confidence in the presence of God,

But whoever has the world’s possessions and sees his fellow Christian in need and shuts off his compassion against him, how can the love of God reside in such a person?

If we say we do not bear the guilt of sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.

And everyone who has this hope focused on him purifies himself, just as Jesus is pure).

If we say we have fellowship with him and yet keep on walking in the darkness, we are lying and not practicing the truth.

(My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin.) But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous One,

And now, little children, remain in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink away from him in shame when he comes back.

Everyone who hates his fellow Christian is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.

And the commandment we have from him is this: that the one who loves God should love his fellow Christian too.

I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.

And this is the confidence that we have before him: that whenever we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

And if we know that he hears us in regard to whatever we ask, then we know that we have the requests that we have asked from him.

What we have seen and heard we announce to you too, so that you may have fellowship with us (and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ).

But if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

Dear friends, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have already heard.

By this love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, because just as Jesus is, so also are we in this world.

There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears punishment has not been perfected in love.