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[\u0095]_{I}1_{/}This is what has been from the beginning, and what we have 
heard and have seen with our own eyes, what we have looked at and 
touched with our hands, I mean the Word who is Life...
[=]_{I}2_{/}The Life made itself known, we have seen Eternal Life and 
we bear witness, and we are telling you of it. It was with the 
Father and made himself known to us.
[=]_{R}_{I}3_{/}So we tell you what we have seen and heard, that you may 
be in fellowship with us, and us, with the Father and with his 
Son, Jesus Christ.
{I}4_{/}And we write this that you may have perfect joy.

{N}WALK IN THE LIGHT{/}

[\u0095]_{R}_{I}5_{/}We heard his message from him and announce it to you: God 
is light and there is no darkness in him.
{I}6_{/}If we say we are in fellowship with him, while we walk in 
darkness, we lie instead of being in truth. [=]_{R}_{I}7_{/}But if we 
walk in the light, as he is in the light, we are in fellowship 
with one another, and the blood of Jesus, the Son of God, purifies 
us from all sin.
[=]_{I}8_{/}If we say, "We have no sin," we deceive ourselves and the 
truth is not in us. {I}9_{/}If we confess our sins, he who is faithful 
and just will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all 
wickedness.
[=]_{R}_{I}10_{/}If we say that we do not sin, we make God a liar, his 
word is not in us.

{N}FULFILL THE COMMANDMENT OF LOVE{/}

{1}2{/}

[\u0095]_[=]_{R}_{I}1_{/}My little children, I write to you that you may not 
sin. But if anyone sins, we have an intercessor with the Father, 
Jesus Christ, the Just One. {I}2_{/}He is the sacrificial victim for 
our sins and the sins of the whole world.
[=]_{I}3_{/}How can we know that we know him? If we fulfill his 
commands.
{I}4_{/}If you say, "I know him," but do not fulfill his commands, you 
are a liar and the truth is not in you. {R}_{I}5_{/}But if you keep his 
word, God's love is made complete in you. This is how we know that 
we are in him:
[=]_{I}6_{/}he who claims to live in him must live as he lived.
{R}_{I}7_{/}My dear friends, I am not writing you a new commandment, but 
reminding you of an old one, one you had from the beginning. This 
old commandment is the word you have heard.
[=]_{R}_{I}8_{/}But, in a way, I give it as a new commandment for it was 
indeed new in Jesus Christ and must be so in you as well, because 
the darkness is passing away and the true light already shines.
[=]_{I}9_{/}If you claim to be in the light but hate your brother, you 
are still in darkness.
[=]_{I}10_{/}If you love your brothers and sisters, you remain in the 
light and nothing in you will make you fall. [=]_{I}11{/}But if you 
hate your brother you are in the dark and walk in darkness without 
knowing where you go, for the darkness has blinded you.
{R}_{I}12_{/}My dear children, I write this to you: you have already 
received the forgiveness of your sins through the Name of Jesus. 
{I}13_{/}Fathers, I write this to you: you know him who is from the 
beginning. Young men, I write this to you: you have overcome the 
Evil One. My dear children, I write to you because you already 
know the Father.
{R}_{I}14_{/}Fathers, I write to you because you know him who is from the 
beginning. Young men, I write to you because you are strong and 
the Word of God lives in you who have indeed overcome the Evil 
One. 
[\u0095]_[=]_{I}15_{/}Do not love the world or what is in it. If anyone 
loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
{I}16_{/}For everything in the world -
the craving of the flesh,
the greed of eyes
and people boasting of their superiority -
all this belongs to the world, not to the Father.
[=]_{R}_{I}17_{/}The world passes away with all its craving but those who 
do the will of God remain for ever.

{N}REJECT THE ANTICHRIST{/}

[\u0095]_{I}18_{/}My dear children, it is the last hour. You were told that 
an antichrist would come; but several antichrists have already 
come, by which we know that it is now the last hour.
{I}19_{/}They went out from us though they did not really belong to 
us. Had they belonged to us, they would have remained with us. So 
it became clear that not all of us were really ours.
[=]_{I}20_{/}But you have the anointing from the Holy One, so that all 
of you have true wisdom.
[=]_{I}21_{/}I write to you, not because you lack knowledge of the 
truth, but because you already know it, and lies have nothing in 
common with the truth. {R}_{I}22_{/}Who is the liar?
The one who denies that Jesus is the Christ.
This is an antichrist, who denies both the Father and the Son. 
[=]_{I}23_{/}The one who denies the Son is without the Father, and 
those who acknowledge the Son also have the Father.
[=]_{I}24_{/}Let what you heard from the beginning remain in you. If 
what you heard from the beginning remains in you, you, too, will 
remain in the Son and in the Father. [=]_{R}_{I}25_{/}And this is the 
promise he himself gave us: eternal life.
{I}26_{/}I write this to you thinking of those who try to lead you 
astray.
[=]_{I}27{/}You received from him an anointing, and it remains in you, 
so you do not need someone to teach you. His anointing teaches you 
all things, it speaks the truth and does not lie to you; so remain 
in him, and keep what he has taught you.
[=]_{I}28_{/}And now, my children, live in him, so that when he 
appears in his glory, we may be confident and not ashamed before 
him when he comes.
{R}_{I}29_{/}You know that he is the Just One: know then that anyone 
living justly is born of God.

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[\u0095]_{R}_{I}1_{/}See what singular love the Father has for us: we are 
called children of God, and we really are. This is why the world 
does not know us, because it did not know him.
[=]_{R}_{I}2_{/}Beloved, we are God's children and what we shall be has 
not yet been shown. Yet when he appears in his glory, we know that 
we shall be like him, for then we shall see him as he is. 
[=]_{I}3_{/}All who have such a hope try to be pure as he is pure.
{R}_{I}4_{/}Anyone who commits a sin acts as an enemy of the law of God; 
any sin is a rejection of his law. [=]_{I}5_{/}You know that he came 
to take away our sins, and that there is no sin in him. 
{I}6_{/}Whoever remains in him has no sin, whoever sins has not seen 
or known him.
[\u0095]{R}_{I}7_{/}My little children, do not be led astray; those who do 
what is right are upright, just as Jesus Christ is upright. 
[=]_{R}_{I}8_{/}But those who sin belong to the devil, for the devil sins 
from the beginning. 
This is why the Son of God was shown to us, he was to undo the 
works of the devil.
{R}_{I}9_{/}Those born of God do not sin, for the seed of God remains in 
them; they cannot sin because they are born of God.
[=]_{R}_{I}10_{/}What is the way to recognize the children of God and 
those of the devil? The one who does not do what is right is not 
of God; so, too, the one who does not love his brother or sister.
[=]_{I}11_{/}For this is the message taught to you from the beginning: 
we must love one another. [=]_{I}12_{/}Do not imitate Cain who killed 
his brother, for he belonged to the Evil One. Why did he kill him? 
Because he himself did evil and his brother did good.
{I}13_{/}So, be not surprised, brothers if the world hates us; 
[=]_{R}_{I}14_{/}we love our brothers and sisters, and with this we know 
that we have passed from death to life. The one who does not love 
remains in death.
[=]_{I}15_{/}The one who hates his brother is a murderer, and, as you 
know, eternal life does not remain in the murderer.
[=]_{I}16_{/}This is how we have known what love is: he gave his life 
for us. We, too, ought to give our life for our brothers and 
sisters.
[=]_{R}_{I}17_{/}If anyone enjoys the riches of this world, but closes 
his heart when he sees his brother or sister in need, how will the 
love of God remain in him? {I}18_{/}My dear children, let us love not 
only with words and with our lips, but in truth and in deed.
{I}19_{/}Then we shall know that we are of the truth and we may calm 
our conscience in his presence. {R}_{I}20_{/}Every time it reproaches us, 
let us say: God is greater than our conscience, and he knows 
everything.
{R}_{I}21_{/}When our conscience does not condemn us, dear friends, we 
may have complete confidence in God. [=]_{I}22_{/}Then whatever we ask 
we shall receive, since we keep his commands and do what pleases 
him.
[=]_{R}_{I}23_{/}His command is that we believe in the Name of his Son 
Jesus Christ and that we love one another, as he has commanded us.
[=]_{R}_{I}24_{/}Whoever keeps his commands remains in God and God in 
him. It is by the Spirit God has given us that we know he lives in 
us.

{N}DO NOT TRUST EVERY INSPIRATION{/}

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[\u0095]_{R}_{I}1_{/}My beloved, do not trust every inspiration. Test the 
spirits to see whether they come from God, because many false 
prophets are now in the world.
[=]_{R}_{I}2_{/}How will you recognize the spirit of God? Any spirit 
recognizing Jesus as the Christ who has taken our flesh is of God. 
[=]_{R}_{I}3_{/}But any spirit which does not recognize Jesus is not from 
God, it is the spirit of the antichrist. You have heard of his 
coming and even now he is in the world.
[=]_{R}_{I}4_{/}You, my dear children, are of God and you have already 
overcome these people, because the one who is in you is more 
powerful than he who is in the world.
[=]_{I}5_{/}They are of the world and the world inspires them and 
those of the world listen to them.
[=]_{R}_{I}6_{/}We are of God and those who know God listen to us, but 
those who are not of God ignore us. This is how we know the spirit 
of truth and the spirit of error as well.

{N}GOD-LOVE IS THE SOURCE OF LOVE{/}

[\u0095]_{R}_{I}7_{/}My dear friends, let us love one another for love comes 
from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
{R}_{I}8_{/}Those who do not love have not known God, for God is love.
[=]_{R}_{I}9_{/}How did the love of God appear among us? God sent his 
only Son into this world that we might have life through him.
[=]_{R}_{I}10_{/}This is love: not that we loved God but that he first 
loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
[=]_{R}_{I}11_{/}Dear friends, if such has been the love of God, we, too, 
must love one another.
[=]_{R}_{I}12_{/}No one has ever seen God, but if we love one another, 
God lives in us, and his love spreads freely among us.
{R}_{I}13_{/}How may we know that we live in God and he in us? Because 
God has given us his Spirit.
[=]_{I}14_{/}We ourselves have seen and declare that the Father sent 
his Son to save the world. {R}_{I}15_{/}Those who acknowledge that Jesus 
is the Son of God, God remains in them and they in God.
[=]_{R}_{I}16_{/}We have known the love of God and have believed in it. 
God is love. The one who lives in love, lives in God and God in 
him.
{I}17_{/}When do we know that we have reached a perfect love? When in 
this world, we are like him in everything, and expect with 
confidence the Day of Judgment.
[=]_{I}18_{/}There is no fear in love. Perfect love drives away fear, 
for fear has to do with punishment; those who fear do not know 
perfect love.
{I}19_{/}So let us love one another, since he loved us first.
{R}_{I}20_{/}If you say, "I love God," while you hate your brother or 
sister, you are a liar. How can you love God whom you do not see, 
if you do not love your brother whom you see? We received from him 
this commandment: let those who love God also love their brothers.

{N}FAITH COMES FROM GOD{/}

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[\u0095]_{R}_{I}1_{/}All those who believe that Jesus is the Anointed, are 
born of God; if you love the Father you also love all those born 
of him. {R}_{I}2_{/}How may we know that we love the children of God? If 
we love God and fulfill his commands,
{R}_{I}3_{/}for God's love requires us to keep his commands. In fact, his 
commandments are not a burden
[=]_{R}_{I}4_{/}because all those born of God overcome the world. And the 
victory which overcomes the world is our faith. [=]_{R}_{I}5_{/}Who has 
overcome the world? The one who believes that Jesus is the Son of 
God.
[=]_{R}_{I}6_{/}Jesus Christ was acknowledged through water, but also 
through blood.
Not only water but water and blood.
And the Spirit, too, witnesses to him for the Spirit is truth.
{I}7_{/}There are then three testimonies:
{R}_{I}8_{/}the Spirit, the water and the blood, and these three 
witnesses agree.
[=]_{R}_{I}9_{/}If we accept human testimony, with greater reason must we 
accept that of God, given in favor of his Son. {R}_{I}10_{/}If you 
believe in the Son of God, you have God's testimony in you.
But those who do not believe make God a liar, since they do not 
believe his words when he witnesses to his Son.
[=]_{R}_{I}11_{/}What has God said? That he has granted us eternal life 
and this life is in his Son. [=]_{R}_{I}12_{/}The one who has the Son has 
life, the one who do not have the Son of God do not have life.

{N}KEEP YOURSELVES FROM IDOLS{/}

[\u0095]_{R}_{I}13_{/}I write you, then, all these things that you may know 
that you have eternal life, all you who believe in the Name of the 
Son of God.
{I}14_{/}Through him we are fully confident that whatever we ask, 
according to his will, he will grant us. [=]_{I}15_{/}If we know that 
he hears us whenever we ask, we know that we already have what we 
asked of him.
[=]_{R}_{I}16_{/}If you see your brother committing sin, a sin which does 
not lead to death, pray for him, and God will give life to your 
brother. I speak, of course, of the sin which does not lead to 
death. There is also a sin that leads to death; I do not speak of 
praying about this. {R}_{I}17_{/}Every kind of wrongdoing is sin, but not 
all sin leads to death.
[=]_{R}_{I}18_{/}We know that those born of God do not sin, for what has 
been born of God takes care of them, and the Evil One can do 
nothing against them.
[\u0095]_[=]_{R}_{I}19_{/}We know that we belong to God, while the whole world 
lies in evil.
[=]_{R}_{I}20_{/}We know that the Son of God has come and has given us 
power to know the truth. We are in him who is true, his Son Jesus 
Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
{I}21_{/}My dear children, keep yourselves from idols.

