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

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

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

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.

Nevertheless you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know.

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.

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

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

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.

The one who says he resides in God ought himself to walk just as Jesus walked.

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

Jesus Christ is the one who came by water and blood – not by the water only, but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

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.

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 says he is in the light but still hates his fellow Christian is still in the darkness.

The one who loves his fellow Christian resides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him.

Who is the liar but the person who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This one is the antichrist: the person who denies the Father and the Son.

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.

not like Cain who was of the evil one and brutally murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, but his brother’s were righteous.

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