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

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

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

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.

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.

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

By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and obey his commandments.

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

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.

If anyone says “I love God” and yet hates his fellow Christian, he is a liar, because the one who does not love his fellow Christian whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

What we have seen and heard we announce to you too, so that you may have fellowship with us (and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ).

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.

(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.

By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness – the one who does not love his fellow Christian – is not of God.

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.

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.

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.