The First Letter Of John
 
   1:1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we
   have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have
   handled, of the Word of life;
 
   1:2 (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear
   witness, and show unto you that eternal life, which was with the
   Father, and was manifested unto us;)
 
   1:3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that you
   also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the
   Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
 
   1:4 And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.
 
   1:5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare
   unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
 
   1:6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness,
   we lie, and do not the truth:
 
   1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have
   fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son
   cleanses us from all sin.
 
   1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth
   is not in us.
 
   1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our
   sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
 
   1:10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his
   word is not in us.
 
   2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that you sin
   not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus
   Christ the righteous:
 
   2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for our's only,
   but also for the sins of the whole world.
 
   2:3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his
   commandments.
 
   2:4 He that says, I know him, and keeps not his commandments, is a
   liar, and the truth is not in him.
 
   2:5 But whoever keeps his word, in him truthfully is the love of God
   perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
 
   2:6 He that says he abides in him ought himself also so to walk, just
   as he walked.
 
   2:7 Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old
   commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is
   the word which you have heard from the beginning.
 
   2:8 Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in
   him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now
   shines.
 
   2:9 He that says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in
   darkness even until now.
 
   2:10 He that loves his brother abides in the light, and there is none
   occasion of stumbling in him.
 
   2:11 But he that hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in
   darkness, and knows not to where he goes, because darkness has blinded
   his eyes.
 
   2:12 I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven
   you for his name's sake.
 
   2:13 I write unto you, fathers, because you have known him that is
   from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because you have
   overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because
   you have known the Father.
 
   2:14 I have written unto you, fathers, because you have known him that
   is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because you
   are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome
   the wicked one.
 
   2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If
   any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
 
   2:16 For all that 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.
 
   2:17 And the world passes away, and the lust of it: but he that does
   the will of God abides forever.
 
   2:18 Little children, it is the last time: and as you have heard that
   antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we
   know that it is the last time.
 
   2:19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had
   been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went
   out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
 
   2:20 But you have an unction from the Holy One, and you know all
   things.
 
   2:21 I have not written unto you because you know not the truth, but
   because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
 
   2:22 Who is a liar but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is
   antichrist, that denies the Father and the Son.
 
   2:23 Whosoever denies the Son, the same has not the Father: he that
   acknowledges the Son has the Father also.
 
   2:24 Let that therefore abide in you, which you have heard from the
   beginning. If that which you have heard from the beginning shall
   remain in you, you also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.
 
   2:25 And this is the promise that he has promised us, even eternal
   life.
 
   2:26 These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce
   you.
 
   2:27 But the anointing which you have received of him abides in you,
   and you need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing
   teaches you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and just as it
   has taught you, you shall abide in him.
 
   2:28 And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall
   appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his
   coming.
 
   2:29 If you know that he is righteous, you know that every one that
   does righteousness is born of him.
 
   3:1 Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that
   we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knows us not,
   because it knew him not.
 
   3:2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it does not yet appear
   what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be
   like him; for we shall see him as he is.
 
   3:3 And every man that has this hope in him purifies himself, even as
   he is pure.
 
   3:4 Whosoever commits sin transgresses also the law: for sin is the
   transgression of the law.
 
   3:5 And you know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in
   him is no sin.
 
   3:6 Whosoever abides in him sins not: whosoever sins has not seen him,
   neither known him.
 
   3:7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that does
   righteousness is righteous, just as he is righteous.
 
   3:8 He that commits sin is of the devil; for the devil sins from the
   beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he
   might destroy the works of the devil.
 
   3:9 Whosoever is born of God does not commit sin; for his seed remains
   in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
 
   3:10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the
   devil: whosoever does not righteousness is not of God, neither he that
   loves not his brother.
 
   3:11 For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that
   we should love one another.
 
   3:12 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother.
   And why slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his
   brother's righteous.
 
   3:13 Marvel not, my brothers, if the world hate you.
 
   3:14 We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love
   the brothers. He that loves not his brother abides in death.
 
   3:15 Whosoever hates his brother is a murderer: and you know that no
   murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
 
   3:16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life
   for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
 
   3:17 But whoever has this world's good, and sees his brother have
   need, and shuts up his insides of compassion from him, how dwells the
   love of God in him?
 
   3:18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue;
   but in deed and in truth.
 
   3:19 And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our
   hearts before him.
 
   3:20 For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and
   knows all things.
 
   3:21 Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence
   toward God.
 
   3:22 And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his
   commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
 
   3:23 And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name
   of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us
   commandment.
 
   3:24 And he that keeps his commandments dwells in him, and he in him.
   And hereby we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit which he has
   given us.
 
   4:1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether
   they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the
   world.
 
   4:2 Hereby know you the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses
   that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
 
   4:3 And every spirit that confesses not that Jesus Christ is come in
   the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist,
   whereof you have heard that it should come; and even now already is it
   in the world.
 
   4:4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because
   greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
 
   4:5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the
   world hears them.
 
   4:6 We are of God: he that knows God hears us; he that is not of God
   hears not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of
   error.
 
   4:7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every
   one that loves is born of God, and knows God.
 
   4:8 He that loves not knows not God; for God is love.
 
   4:9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because God sent
   his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
 
   4:10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and
   sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
 
   4:11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
 
   4:12 No man has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God
   dwells in us, and his love is perfected in us.
 
   4:13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he has
   given us of his Spirit.
 
   4:14 And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to
   be the Saviour of the world.
 
   4:15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwells
   in him, and he in God.
 
   4:16 And we have known and believed the love that God has to us. God
   is love; and he that dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him.
 
   4:17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the
   day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
 
   4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear:
   because fear has torment. He that fears is not made perfect in love.
 
   4:19 We love him, because he first loved us.
 
   4:20 If a man say, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar:
   for he that loves not his brother whom he has seen, how can he love
   God whom he has not seen?
 
   4:21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loves God love
   his brother also.
 
   5:1 Whosoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and
   every one that loves him that begat loves him also that is begotten of
   him.
 
   5:2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love
   God, and keep his commandments.
 
   5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and
   his commandments are not grievous.
 
   5:4 For whatsoever is born of God overcomes the world: and this is the
   victory that overcomes the world, even our faith.
 
   5:5 Who is he that overcomes the world, but he that believes that
   Jesus is the Son of God?
 
   5:6 This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by
   water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that bears
   witness, because the Spirit is truth.
 
   5:7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the
   Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
 
   5:8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and
   the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.
 
   5:9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater:
   for this is the witness of God which he has testified of his Son.
 
   5:10 He that believes on the Son of God has the witness in himself: he
   that believes not God has made him a liar; because he believes not the
   record that God gave of his Son.
 
   5:11 And this is the record, that God has given to us eternal life,
   and this life is in his Son.
 
   5:12 He that has the Son has life; and he that has not the Son of God
   has not life.
 
   5:13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of
   the Son of God; that you may know that you have eternal life, and that
   you may believe on the name of the Son of God.
 
   5:14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask
   any thing according to his will, he hears us:
 
   5:15 And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that
   we have the petitions that we desired of him.
 
   5:16 If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he
   shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto
   death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for
   it.
 
   5:17 All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.
 
   5:18 We know that whosoever is born of God sins not; but he that is
   begotten of God keeps himself, and that wicked one touches him not.
 
   5:19 And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in
   wickedness.
 
   5:20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and has given us an
   understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him
   that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and
   eternal life.
 
   5:21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.