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

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

They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world’s perspective and the world listens to them.

The person who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.

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

We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.

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.

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

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,

For there are three that testify,

(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.)

And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

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.

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

Dear friends, if our conscience does not condemn us, we have confidence in the presence of God,

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.

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.