1 My little children, I am writing these
2 and he
3 And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments.
4 The one who says “I have come to know him,” and does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in this person.
5 But whoever keeps his word, truly in this person the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in him.
6 The one who says
7 Dear friends, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the message which you have heard.
8 Again, I am writing a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you, because
9 The one who says
10 The one who loves his brother resides in the light, and
11 But the one who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
12 I am writing to you, little children, because
13 I am writing to you, fathers, because
14 I have written to you, children, because
15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,
16 because everything
17 And the world is passing away, and its desire,
18 Children, it is the last hour, and just as you have heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen, by which we know that it is the last hour.
19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us. But
20 And you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know.
21 I have not written to you because
22 Who is the liar except the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This person is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son.
23 Everyone who denies the Son does not have the Father
25 And this is the promise which he himself promised us: eternal life.
26 These
27 And
28 And now, little children, remain in him, so that whenever he is revealed we may have confidence and not be put to shame before him at his coming.
29 If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone also who practices righteousness has been fathered by him.