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

And the person who keeps his commandments resides in God, and God in him. Now by this we know that God resides in us: by the Spirit he has given us.

(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.

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

because everyone who has been fathered by God conquers the world.This is the conquering power that has conquered the world: our faith.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been fathered by God, and everyone who loves the father loves the child fathered by him.

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

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us insight to know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and 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.

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.

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.

but every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God, and this is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now is already in the world.