In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

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

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.

because all that is in the world (the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the arrogance produced by material possessions) is not from the Father, but is from the world.

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.

but every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God, and this is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now is already in the world.

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.

Everyone who has been fathered by God does not practice sin, because God’s seed resides in him, and thus he is not able to sin, because he has been fathered by God.

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.

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

And everyone who has this hope focused on him purifies himself, just as Jesus is pure).

For there are three that testify,

Little children, guard yourselves from idols.

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

that if our conscience condemns us, that God is greater than our conscience and knows all things.

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to determine if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

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

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.

Thus we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete.