These things I have written to you about those who are trying to deceive you. ¹ 

and the life was revealed, and we have seen and testify and announce ¹  to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us). ² 

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

We have come to know love by this: ¹  that Jesus ²  laid down ³  his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.

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 

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

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 

They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us, because if they had belonged to us, they would have remained ¹  with us. But ²  they went out from us ³  to demonstrate ⁴  that all of them do not belong to us. ⁵ 

Now this ¹  is the promise that he ²  himself made to ³  us: eternal life. ⁴ 

I am writing to you, ¹  little children, that ²  your sins have been forgiven because of his ³  name.

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

They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world’s perspective and the world listens to them.

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.

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

And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior ¹  of the world.

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.

And this is the confidence that we have before him: that ¹  whenever ²  we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

Now ¹  this is the gospel ²  message ³  we have heard from him ⁴  and announce to you: God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all. ⁵ 

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, ¹  but test ²  the spirits ³  to determine ⁴  if they are from God, because many false prophets ⁵  have gone out into the world.

In this ¹  is love: not that ²  we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice ³  for our sins.