1 John

No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.

Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.

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.

And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.

Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.

For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.

And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.

My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

But whoso hath this world"s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

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 brethren.

Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.

Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother"s righteous.

For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.

Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.