These things I have written to you about those who are trying to deceive you.

Now as for you, the anointing that you received from him resides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things, it is true and is not a lie. Just as it has taught you, you reside in him.

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

Therefore do not be surprised, brothers and sisters, if the world hates you.

Dear friends, if God so loved us, then we also ought to love one another.

We love because he loved us first.

As for you, what you have heard from the beginning must remain in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.

Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Jesus is righteous.

But if we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous, forgiving us our sins and cleansing us from all unrighteousness.

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.

and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing to him.

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

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.

This is what we proclaim to you: what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and our hands have touched (concerning the word of life –

Now this is the gospel message we have heard from him and announce to you: God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.

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.

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.

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.

(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.