Now this is the promise that he himself made to us: eternal life.

(The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified concerning his Son.)

Thus we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete.

and the life was revealed, and we have seen and testify and announce to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us).

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.

They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us, because if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But they went out from us to demonstrate that all of them do not belong to us.

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.

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.

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God resides in us, and his love is perfected in 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.

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.

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.

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.

The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was revealed: to destroy the works of the devil.

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.