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

Now this is his commandment: that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he gave us the commandment.

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.

(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.