(My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin.) But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous One,

and he himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for our sins but also for the whole world.

I have not written to you that you do not know the truth, but that you do know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

Everyone who denies the Son does not have the Father either. The person who confesses the Son has the Father also.

and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing to him.

By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses Jesus as the Christ who has come in the flesh is from God,

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.

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

For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments do not weigh us down,

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.

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.

But now I ask you, lady (not as if I were writing a new commandment to you, but the one we have had from the beginning), that we love one another.

But these men do not understand the things they slander, and they are being destroyed by the very things that, like irrational animals, they instinctively comprehend.

wild sea waves, spewing out the foam of their shame; wayward stars for whom the utter depths of eternal darkness have been reserved.

Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy aloud, and blessed are those who hear and obey the things written in it, because the time is near!

The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will in no way be harmed by the second death.’

Look! I am throwing her onto a bed of violent illness, and those who commit adultery with her into terrible suffering, unless they repent of her deeds.

But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or look into it.

and the stars in the sky fell to the earth like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when shaken by a fierce wind.