<t /><p class="bodytext">For<n id="1" /> this is the gospel<n id="2" /> message<n id="3" /> that you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another,<n id="4" />

not like Cain<n id="1" /> who was of the evil one and brutally<n id="2" /> murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, but his brother&#8217;s were righteous.p>

Now this<n id="1" /> is the promise that he<n id="2" /> himself made to<n id="3" /> us: eternal life.<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">And this is the confidence that we have before him: that<n id="1" /> whenever<n id="2" /> we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

<t /><p class="bodytext">This is what we proclaim to you:<n id="1" /> what was from the beginning,<n id="2" /> what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and our hands have touched (concerning the word of life &#8211;

and the life was revealed, and we have seen and testify and announce<n id="1" /> to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us).<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> this is the gospel<n id="2" /> message<n id="3" /> we have heard from him<n id="4" /> and announce to you: God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.<n id="5" />

<p class="bodytext">Dear friends, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning.<n id="1" /> The old commandment is the word that you have already<n id="2" /> heard.

And we have come to know and to believe<n id="1" /> the love that God has in us.<n id="2" /> God is love, and the one who resides<n id="3" /> in love resides in God, and God resides in him.

(The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified concerning his Son.)<n id="1" />