1 My little children, I write these things to you so that you do not wander from the path. And if anyone wanders from the path, we have One Who pleads our cause next to the Father, Jesus Christ Whose way of thinking, feeling, and acting is wholly conformed to the Will of God, and Who therefore needs no purification in the innermost mind or life.
2 And He is the reconciliation to God and appeasement of the wrath of God for our wanderings from the path that leads to the absolute and genuine Life, and not for our wanderings only, but also for the wanderings of the whole world.
3 And by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments.
4 Whoever says, "I know Him," and does NOT keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in them.
5 But whoever keeps His Utterance, the love of God is truly complete in this one; by this we know that we are in Him.
6 Those who say they abide in Him ought, themselves, also so to walk just as He walked.
7 Fellow believers, I write no new commandment to you but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the Utterance which you have heard from the beginning.
8 Again, I write a new commandment to you which is true in Him and in you because the darkness is past, and the true Light now appears.
9 Those who say they are in the light, but hate their fellow believer, are in darkness to this moment.
10 Those who love their fellow believer abide in the Light, and there is nothing in them that traps others into being drawn into error or causing them to wander from the path that leads to the absolute fullness of Life.
11 But those who hate their fellow believer are in darkness and walk in darkness and do not know where they go because darkness has blinded their eyes.
12 I write to you, little children, because your wanderings from the path have been sent away from you for His Name's sake.
13 I write to you, fathers, because you have known Him Who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the wicked one. I write to you, little children, because you have known the Father.
14 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 Utterance of God abides in you, and you have overcome the wicked one.
15 Do not love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 For all that is in the world, the desires of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. *
17 And the world passes away and the desire, but whoever does the will of God remains into the coming age.
18 Little children, it is the last time, and as you have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; by which we know that it is the last time.
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 visible that they were not all of us.
20 But you have an Anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things.
21 I have not written to you because you know not the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
22 Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denies the Father and the Mature Son.
23 Whoever denies the Mature Son, the same has not the Father: (but) he who acknowledges the Mature Son has the Father also.
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 Mature Son, and in the Father.
25 And this is the promise that He has promised us, even the genuine and absolute fullness of life of the Kingdom Age.
26 These things have I written to you concerning those who seduce you.
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 even as it has taught you, you shall abide in Him. * *
28 And now, little children, abide in Him; that, when He shall be visible, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before Him at His abiding presence. *
29 If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who does righteousness is born of Him.