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¹ My children, these things I write to you, that ye sin not. But if any one should sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus the Messiah, the righteous.² For he is himself the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for all the world.

³ And by this we shall be sensible that we know him, if we keep his commandments.⁴ For he that saith, I know him, and doth not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.⁵ But he that keepeth his word, in him is the love of God truly completed: for by this we know that we are in him.⁶ He that saith, I am in him, is bound to walk according to his walkings.

⁷ My beloved, I write no new commandment to you, but the old commandment which ye had from the beginning; and the old commandment is the word, which ye have heard.⁸ Again, a new commandment I write to you, which is true in him and in you; because the darkness hath passed away, and the true light beginneth to appear.⁹ Whoever therefore shall say that he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness until now.¹⁰ He that loveth his brother, abideth in the light, and in him is no stumbling.¹¹ But he that hateth his brother, is in darkness, and walketh in darkness; and he knoweth not whither he goeth, because the darkness hath blinded his eyes.

¹² I write to you, ye children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.¹³ I write to you, ye fathers, because ye have known him who existed from the beginning. I write to you, ye young men, because ye have vanquished the evil one.¹⁴ 14 I have written to you, ye little ones, because ye have known the Father. I have written to you, ye fathers, because ye have known him who [fn] from the beginning, I have written to you, ye young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God dwelleth in you, and ye have vanquished the evil one. ¹⁵ Love not the world, nor any thing in it; for whoever loveth the world, hath not the love of the Father in him.¹⁶ For all that is in the world, is, the lust of the body, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of the world; which are not from the Father, but from the world itself.¹⁷ 17 And the world is passing away, [fn] it and the lust thereof; but he that doeth the pleasure of God, abideth for ever.