¹My little children, these things I am writing to you so that you may not sin; and if anyone shall sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus the Anointed One, the Righteous One,

²and He himself is the propitiation for our sins; but not only for those of ourselves, also for all the world.

³And by this we know that we have come to know Him, if we shall keep his commandments.

⁴The one who says that I have known Him and not keeping his commandments, he is a liar, and in him the truth is not;

⁵But whoever keeps his word, truly in this one the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in him.

⁶The one claiming to abide in Him ought, even as that one walked, also himself to walk in the same way.

⁷Beloved, not a new commandment I am writing to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word that you have heard from the beginning.

⁸Again a new commandment I am writing to you, which is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light already shines.

⁹The one who claims to be in the light and hating his brother is in the darkness until now.

¹⁰The one who loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling.

¹¹However the one hating his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and he does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

¹²I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven for the sake of his name.

¹³I am writing to you, fathers, because you have known Him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one.

¹⁴I have written to you, little children, because you have known the Father. I have written to you, fathers, because you have known Him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong and the word of God abides in you and you have overcome the evil one.

¹⁵Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him;

¹⁶because all that is in the world, the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the vaunting of life, is not from the Father but is from the world.

¹⁷And the world is passing away and its desire; however the one doing the will of God abides forever.

¹⁸Little children, it is the last hour, and even as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen, whereby we know that it is the last hour.

¹⁹From among us they went out, but they were not our own; for if they were our own they would have remained with us; but it is so that it may be made manifest that they are not all our own.

²⁰And you yourselves have the anointing from the Holy One, and you all know.

²¹I have not written to you because you know not the truth, but because you know it, and because any lie is not of the truth.

²²Who is the liar except only the one who denies that Jesus is not the Anointed One? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son.

²³Everyone who is denying the Son neither has the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also.

²⁴Therefore you yourselves, what you have heard from the beginning should abide in you. If what you have heard from the beginning shall abide in you, you yourselves also will abide in the Son and in the Father.

²⁵And this is the promise that He himself promised us: the eternal life.

²⁶These things I have written to you concerning those leading you astray.

²⁷And you yourselves, the anointing that you received from Him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone may teach you; but just as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things and is true and is not a lie, and even as it has taught you, you abide in Him.

²⁸And now, little children, abide in Him, so that if He shall appear we may have boldness and may not be ashamed before Him at his coming.

²⁹If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone also who is practicing his righteousness has been begotten.