Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue but in deed and truth.

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

And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has in us. God is love, and the one who resides in love resides in God, and God resides in him.

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.

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.

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.

By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we may live through him.

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

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.

Children, it is the last hour, and just as you heard that the antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. We know from this that it is the last hour.

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.

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

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.

Dear friends, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have already heard.

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.

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

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

If we accept the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, because this is the testimony of God that he has testified concerning his Son.