Nevertheless you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know. ¹ 

The person who does not love does not know God, because God is love. ¹ 

I have not written to you that ¹  you do not know the truth, but that ²  you do know it, and that ³  no lie is of the truth.

Dear friends, let us love one another, because ¹  love is from God, and everyone who loves ²  has been fathered ³  by God and knows God.

I am writing to you, fathers, that ¹  you have known him who has been from the beginning. I am writing to you, young people, that ²  you have conquered the evil one. ³ 

We are from God; the person who knows God listens to us, but ¹  whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this ²  we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit. ³ 

Now ¹  by this we know that we have come to know God: ²  if we keep his commandments.

And you know that Jesus ¹  was revealed to take away ²  sins, and in him there is no sin.

Everyone who resides ¹  in him does not sin; ²  everyone who sins has neither seen him nor known him.

that ¹  if our conscience condemns ²  us, that ³  God is greater than our conscience and knows all things.

The one who says “I have come to know God” ¹  and yet does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in such a person.

But the one who hates his fellow Christian ¹  is in the darkness, walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes. ² 

If you know that he is righteous, you also know ¹  that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered ²  by him.

By this ¹  you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses ²  Jesus as the Christ ³  who has come in the flesh is from God,

And if we know ¹  that he hears us in regard to whatever we ask, then we know that we have the requests that we have asked from him.

I have written these things ¹  to you who believe ²  in the name of the Son of God so that ³  you may know that you have eternal life.

I have written to you, children, that ¹  you have known the Father. ²  I have written to you, fathers, that ³  you have known him who has been from the beginning. I have written to you, young people, that ⁴  you are strong, and the word of God resides in you, and you have conquered the evil one.