For there are three that testify,

I have not written to you that you do not know the truth, but that you do know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

If you know that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered by him.

I am writing to you, fathers, that you have known him who has been from the beginning. I am writing to you, young people, that you have conquered the evil one.

Children, it is the last hour, and just as you heard that the antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. We know from this that it is the last hour.

We know that we have crossed over from death to life because we love our fellow Christians. The one who does not love remains in death.

that if our conscience condemns us, that God is greater than our conscience and knows all things.

By this we know that we reside in God and he in us: in that he has given us of his Spirit.

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.

Now by this we know that we have come to know God: if we keep his commandments.

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

For this is the gospel message that you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another,

We love because he loved us first.

I have written to you, children, that you have known the Father. I have written to you, fathers, that you have known him who has been from the beginning. I have written to you, young people, that you are strong, and the word of God resides in you, and you have conquered the evil one.

Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever it is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is.

Everyone who has been fathered by God does not practice sin, because God’s seed resides in him, and thus he is not able to sin, because he has been fathered by God.

In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

If we accept the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, because this is the testimony of God that he has testified concerning his Son.

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

And you know that Jesus was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.