Who is the liar but the person who denies that Jesus is the Christ ¹ ? This one is the antichrist: the person who denies the Father and the Son.

Now who is the person who has conquered the world except the one who believes that ¹  Jesus is the Son of God?

This is what we proclaim to you: ¹  what was from the beginning, 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 –

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

The one who practices sin is of the devil, ¹  because the devil has been sinning ²  from the beginning. For this purpose ³  the Son of God was revealed: to destroy ⁴  the works of the devil.

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ ¹  has been fathered ²  by God, and everyone who loves the father ³  loves the child fathered by him. ⁴ 

We know that everyone fathered ¹  by God does not sin, but God ²  protects ³  the one he has fathered, and the evil one cannot touch him.

And the world is passing away with all its desires, but the person who does the will of God remains ¹  forever.

Everyone who denies the Son does not have the Father either. The person who confesses the Son has the Father also. ¹ 

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

You are from God, little children, and have conquered them, ¹  because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

If anyone ¹  confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God resides ²  in him and he in God.

The one who has the Son ¹  has this ²  eternal ³  life; the one who does not have the Son of God does not have this ⁴  eternal ⁵  life.

The one who says he resides ¹  in God ²  ought himself to walk ³  just as Jesus ⁴  walked.

Therefore do not be surprised, brothers and sisters, ¹  if the world hates you. ² 

Dear friends, if God so loved us, then ¹  we also ought to love one another. ² 

And we have come to know and to believe ¹  the love that God has in us. ²  God is love, and the one who resides ³  in love resides in God, and God resides in him.

As for you, what you have heard from the beginning must remain ¹  in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.

(See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that ¹  we should be called God’s children – and indeed ²  we are! ³  For this reason ⁴  the world does not know us: because it did not know him. ⁵ 

By this ¹  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 ²  – is not of God.