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.

But whoever has the world’s possessions and sees his fellow Christian in need and shuts off his compassion against him, how can the love of God reside in such a person?

By this we know that we reside in God and he in us: in that he has given us of his Spirit.

The one who says “I have come to know God” and yet does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in such a person.

I have written to you, children, that you have known the Father. I have written to you, fathers, that you have known him who has been from the beginning. I have written to you, young people, that you are strong, and the word of God resides in you, and you have conquered the evil one.

If anyone sees his fellow Christian committing a sin not resulting in death, he should ask, and God will grant life to the person who commits a sin not resulting in death. There is a sin resulting in death. I do not say that he should ask about that.

Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; indeed, sin is lawlessness.

Little children, guard yourselves from idols.

If you know that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered by him.

(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,

If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar and his word is not in us.

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

If we say we have fellowship with him and yet keep on walking in the darkness, we are lying and not practicing the truth.

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.

And this is the confidence that we have before him: that whenever we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

and the life was revealed, and we have seen and testify and announce to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us).

On the other hand, I am writing a new commandment to you which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.

By this love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, because just as Jesus is, so also are we in this world.