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But whoever keeps His Word, truly in this one the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him.

Brothers, I do not write a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the Word which you have heard from the beginning.

But the one hating his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness blinded his eyes.

because all that which is in the world: the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

And the world is passing away, and its lust. But the one doing the will of God abides forever.

They went out from us, but they were not of us. For if they were of us, they would have remained with us; but they left so that it might be revealed that they all are not of us.

I did not write to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because every lie is not of the truth.

And the anointing which you received from Him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone teach you. But as His anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and as He taught you, abide in Him.

Beloved, now we are the children of God, and it was not yet revealed what we shall be. But we know that if He is revealed, we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is.

not as Cain was of the evil one, and killed his brother. And for what did he kill him? Because his works were evil, but the things of his brother were righteous.

My little children, let us not love in word, or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are from God; for many false prophets have gone forth into the world.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be a propitiation relating to our sins.

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment; and the one fearing has not been perfected in love.

This is the One coming through water and blood, Jesus Christ; not by the water only, but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the One witnessing, because the Spirit is the truth.

We know that everyone being generated from God does not sin, but the one having been generated from God keeps himself, and the evil one does not touch him.

The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth; and not I only, but also all those who have known the truth,

And I now request you, lady, not writing as a new commandment, but one which we had from the beginning, that we should love one another.

Watch yourselves, that we may not lose the things we worked out, but that we may receive a full reward.

Having many things to write to you, I do not intend to speak by means of paper and ink, but I am hoping to come to you, and to speak mouth to mouth, that our joy may be full.