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What was ^(C1)from the beginning, what we have ^(C2)heard, what we have ^(C3)seen with our eyes, what we ^(C4)have looked at and ^(C5)touched with our hands, concerning the ^(C6)Word of Life—

and ^(C1)the life was revealed, and we have ^(C2)seen and ^(C3)testify and proclaim to you ^(C4)the eternal life, which was ^(C5)with the Father and was ^(C1)revealed to us—

what we have ^(C1)seen and ^(C2)heard we proclaim to you also, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our ^(C3)fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ.

^(C1)These things we write, so that our ^(C2)joy may be made complete.

^(C1)This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that ^(C2)God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.

^(C1)If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we ^(C2)lie and ^(C3)do not practice the truth;

but if we ^(C1)walk in the Light as ^(C2)He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and ^(C3)the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.

^(C1)If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the ^(C2)truth is not in us.

^(C1)If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous, so that He will forgive us our sins and ^(C2)cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

^(C1)If we say that we have not sinned, we ^(C2)make Him a liar and ^(C3)His word is not in us.

^(C1)My little children, I am ^(C2)writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, ^(C3)we have an ^(F1)(C4)Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous;

and He Himself is ^(C1)the ^(F1)propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also ^(C2)for the sins of the whole world.

^(C1)By this we know that we have come to ^(C2)know Him, if we ^(C3)keep His commandments.

The one who says, "^(C1)I have come to ^(C2)know Him," and does not keep His commandments, is a ^(C3)liar, and ^(C4)the truth is not in him;

but whoever ^(C1)follows His word, in him the ^(C2)love of God has truly been perfected. ^(C3)By this we know that we are in Him:

the one who says that he ^(C1)remains in Him ^(C2)ought, himself also, to walk just as He walked.

^(C1)Beloved, I am ^(C2)not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had ^(C3)from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you have heard.

^(F1)On the other hand, I am writing ^(C1)a new commandment to you, which is true in Him and in you, because ^(C2)the darkness is passing away and ^(C3)the true Light is already shining.

The one who says that he is in the Light and yet ^(C1)hates his ^(C2)brother or sister is in the darkness until now.

^(C1)The one who loves his brother and sister remains in the Light, and there is nothing in him to cause stumbling.

But the one who ^(C1)hates his brother or sister is in the darkness and ^(C2)walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going because the darkness has ^(C3)blinded his eyes.

I am writing to you, ^(C1)little children, because ^(C2)your sins have been forgiven you on account of His name.

I am writing to you, fathers, because you know Him ^(C1)who has been from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because ^(C2)you have overcome ^(C3)the evil one. I have written to you, children, because ^(C4)you know the Father.

I have written to you, fathers, because you know Him ^(C1)who has been from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are ^(C2)strong, and the ^(C3)word of God remains in you, and ^(C4)you have overcome the evil one.

Do not love ^(C1)the world nor the things in the world. ^(C2)If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

For all that is in the world, ^(C1)the lust of the flesh and ^(C2)the lust of the eyes and ^(C3)the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.

^(C1)The world is passing away and also its lusts; but the one who ^(C2)does the will of God continues to live forever.

Children, ^(C1)it is the last hour; and just as you heard that ^(C2)antichrist is coming, ^(C3)even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour.

^(C1)They went out from us, but they were not really of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out, ^(C2)so that ^(F1)it would be evident that they all are not of us.

^(F1)But you have an ^(C1)anointing from ^(C2)the Holy One, and ^(C3)you all know.

I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but ^(C1)because you do know it, and ^(F1)because no lie is ^(C2)of the truth.

Who is the liar except ^(C1)the one who denies that Jesus is the ^(F1)Christ? This is ^(C2)the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son.

^(C1)Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also.

As for you, see that what you heard ^(C1)from the beginning remains in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also ^(C2)will remain in the Son and in the Father.

^(C1)This is the promise which He Himself ^(F1)made to us: eternal life.

These things I have written to you concerning those who are trying to ^(C1)deceive you.

And as for you, the ^(C1)anointing which you received from Him remains in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you; but as His anointing ^(C2)teaches you about all things, and is ^(C3)true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, ^(F1)you remain in Him.

Now, ^(C1)little children, remain in Him, so that when He ^(C2)appears, we may have ^(C3)confidence and ^(C4)not ^(F1)draw back from Him in shame ^(F2)at His ^(C5)coming.

If you know that ^(C1)He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness also ^(C2)has been born of Him.

See ^(F1)(C1)how great a love the Father has given us, that we would be called ^(C2)children of God; and in fact we are. For this reason the world does not know us: because ^(C3)it did not know Him.

^(C1)Beloved, now we are ^(C2)children of God, and ^(C3)it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He ^(C4)appears, we will be ^(C5)like Him, because we will ^(C6)see Him just as He is.

And everyone who has this ^(C1)hope set on Him ^(C2)purifies himself, just as He is pure.

Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and ^(C1)sin is lawlessness.

You know that He ^(C1)appeared in order to ^(C2)take away sins; and ^(C3)in Him there is no sin.

No one who remains in Him ^(C1)sins continually; no one who sins continually has seen Him or ^(F1)(C2)knows Him.

^(C1)Little children, make sure no one ^(C2)deceives you; ^(C3)the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous;

the one who practices sin is ^(C1)of the devil; for the devil ^(F1)has been sinning from the beginning. ^(C2)The Son of God ^(C3)appeared for this purpose, ^(C4)to destroy the works of the devil.

No one who has been ^(C1)born of God practices sin, because His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin continually, because he has been born of God.

By this the ^(C1)children of God and the ^(C2)children of the devil are obvious: ^(F1)anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who ^(C3)does not love his ^(C4)brother and sister.

^(C1)For this is the message ^(C2)which you have heard from the beginning, ^(C3)that we are to love one another;

not as ^(C1)Cain, who was of ^(C2)the evil one and murdered his brother. And for what reason did he murder him? Because ^(C3)his own deeds were evil, but his brother's were righteous.

Do not be surprised, brothers and sisters, if ^(C1)the world hates you.

We know that we have ^(C1)passed out of death into life, ^(C2)because we love the brothers and sisters. The one who does not love remains in death.

Everyone who ^(C1)hates his brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that ^(C2)no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.

We know love by this, that ^(C1)He laid down His life for us; and ^(C2)we ought to lay down our lives for the ^(C3)brothers and sisters.

But ^(C1)whoever has worldly goods and sees his brother or sister in need, and ^(C2)closes his ^(F1)heart ^(F2)against him, ^(C3)how does the love of God remain in him?

^(C1)Little children, let's not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and ^(C2)truth.

We will know by this that we are ^(C1)of the truth, and will set our heart at ease before Him,

that if our heart condemns us, that God is greater than our heart, and He knows all things.

^(C1)Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have ^(C2)confidence ^(F1)before God;

and ^(C1)whatever we ask, we receive from Him, because we ^(C2)keep His commandments and do ^(C3)the things that are pleasing in His sight.

This is His commandment, that we ^(F1)(C1)believe in ^(C2)the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as ^(C3)He ^(F2)commanded us.

The one who ^(C1)keeps His commandments ^(C2)remains in Him, and He in him. ^(C3)We know by this that ^(C4)He remains in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.

^(C1)Beloved, do not believe every ^(C2)spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because ^(C3)many false prophets have gone out into the world.

By this you know the Spirit of God: ^(C1)every spirit that ^(C2)confesses that ^(C3)Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God;

and every spirit that ^(C1)does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the ^(C2)antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and ^(C3)now it is already in the world.

You are from God, ^(C1)little children, and ^(C2)have overcome them; because ^(C3)greater is He who is in you than ^(C4)he who is in the world.

^(C1)They are from the world, therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them.

^(C1)We are from God. ^(C2)The one who knows God listens to us; ^(C3)the one who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know ^(C4)the spirit of truth and ^(C5)the spirit of error.

^(C1)Beloved, let's ^(C2)love one another; for love is from God, and ^(C3)everyone who loves has been ^(C4)born of God and ^(C5)knows God.

The one who does not love does not know God, because ^(C1)God is love.

By this the love of God was revealed ^(F1)(C1)in us, that ^(C2)God has sent His only Son into the world so that we may live through Him.

In this is love, ^(C1)not that we loved God, but that ^(C2)He loved us and sent His Son to be ^(C3)the ^(F1)propitiation for our sins.

^(C1)Beloved, if God so loved us, ^(C2)we also ought to love one another.

^(C1)No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God remains in us, and His ^(C2)love is perfected in us.

^(C1)By this we know that we remain in Him and He in us, because He has given to us of His Spirit.

We have seen and ^(C1)testify that the Father has ^(C2)sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.

^(C1)Whoever confesses that ^(C2)Jesus is the Son of God, God ^(C3)remains in him, and he in God.

^(C1)We have come to know and have believed the love which God has ^(F1)(C2)for us. ^(C3)God is love, and the one who ^(C4)remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

By this, ^(C1)love is perfected with us, so that we may have ^(C2)confidence in ^(C3)the day of judgment; because ^(C4)as He is, we also are in this world.

There is no fear in love, but ^(C1)perfect love drives out fear, because fear ^(F1)involves punishment, and the one who fears is not ^(C2)perfected in love.

^(C1)We love, because He first loved us.

^(C1)If someone says, "I love God," and yet he ^(C2)hates his brother or sister, he is a ^(C3)liar; for ^(C4)the one who does not love his brother and sister whom he has seen, ^(C5)cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

And ^(C1)this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God ^(C2)must also love his brother and sister.

^(C1)Everyone who believes that Jesus is the ^(F1)Christ has been ^(C2)born of God, and everyone who loves the ^(F2)Father ^(C3)loves the child born of Him.

^(C1)By this we know that ^(C2)we love the children of God, when we love God and ^(F1)follow His commandments.

For ^(C1)this is the love of God, that we ^(C2)keep His commandments; and ^(C3)His commandments are not burdensome.

For ^(F1)whoever has been ^(C1)born of God ^(C2)overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.

Who is the one who overcomes the world, but the one who ^(C1)believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

This is the One who came ^(C1)by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not ^(F1)with the water only, but ^(F1)with the water and ^(F1)with the blood. It is ^(C2)the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

For there are ^(C1)three that testify:

^(F1)the Spirit and the water and the blood; and the three are ^(F2)in agreement.

^(C1)If we receive the testimony of people, the testimony of God is greater; for the testimony of God is this, that ^(C2)He has testified concerning His Son.

The one who believes in the Son of God ^(C1)has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has ^(C2)made Him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning His Son.

And the testimony is this, that God has given us ^(C1)eternal life, and ^(C2)this life is in His Son.

^(C1)The one who has the Son has the life; the one who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.

^(C1)These things I have written to you who ^(C2)believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have ^(C3)eternal life.

This is ^(C1)the confidence which we have ^(F1)before Him, that, ^(C2)if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.

And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, ^(C1)we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him.

If anyone sees his brother or sister ^(F1)committing a sin not leading to death, ^(C1)he shall ask and ^(F2)God will, for him, give life to those who commit sin not leading to death. ^(C2)There is sin leading to death; ^(C3)I am not saying that he should ask about that.

^(C1)All unrighteousness is sin, and ^(C2)there is sin not leading to death.

^(C1)We know that ^(C2)no one who has been born of God ^(F1)sins; but He who was born of God ^(C3)keeps him, and ^(C4)the evil one does not ^(C5)touch him.

^(C1)We know that ^(C2)we are of God, and that ^(C3)the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

And ^(C1)we know that ^(C2)the Son of God has come, and has ^(C3)given us understanding so that we may know ^(C4)Him who is true; and we ^(C5)are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. ^(C6)This is the true God and ^(C7)eternal life.

^(C1)Little children, guard yourselves from ^(C2)idols.