By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses Jesus as the Christ who has come in the flesh is from God,

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.

By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness – the one who does not love his fellow Christian – is not of God.

Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.

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.

We know that everyone fathered by God does not sin, but God protects the one he has fathered, and the evil one cannot touch him.

We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

But whoever obeys his word, truly in this person the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in him.

And the world is passing away with all its desires, but the person who does the will of God remains forever.

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to determine if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

You are from God, little children, and have conquered them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God resides in him and he in God.

By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and obey his commandments.

For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments do not weigh us down,

Now who is the person who has conquered the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

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.

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.

We are from God; the person who knows God listens to us, but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit.

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.