1 John 1; 1 John 2; 1
John 3; 1 John 4; 1 John 5
1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard,
which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have
touched--this we proclaim concerning the Word of life. 2 The
life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the
eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us. 3 We
proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have
fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son,
Jesus Christ.4 We write this to make our joy complete. 5 This
is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him
there is no darkness at all. 6 If we claim to have fellowship
with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. 7 But
if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one
another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. 8 If
we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in
us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will
forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 10 If
we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word has no
place in our lives.
1 My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not
sin. But if anybody does sin, we have one who speaks to the Father in our
defense--Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. 2 He is the atoning
sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the
whole world. 3 We know that we have come to know him if we
obey his commands. 4 The man who says, "I know him,"
but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5 But
if anyone obeys his word, God's love is truly made complete in him. This is how
we know we are in him: 6 Whoever claims to live in him must
walk as Jesus did. 7 Dear friends, I am not writing you a new
command but an old one, which you have had since the beginning. This old
command is the message you have heard. 8 Yet I am writing you
a new command; its truth is seen in him and you, because the darkness is
passing and the true light is already shining. 9 Anyone who
claims to be in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness. 10Whoever
loves his brother lives in the light, and there is nothing in him to make him
stumble. 11 But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness
and walks around in the darkness; he does not know where he is going, because
the darkness has blinded him. 12 I write to you, dear
children, because your sins have been forgiven on account of his name. 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 evil one. I write to
you, dear children, because you have known the Father. 14 I
write to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I
write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God lives in
you, and you have overcome the evil one. 15 Do not love the
world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the
Father is not in him. 16 For everything in the world--the
cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has
and does--comes not from the Father but from the world. 17 The
world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives
forever. 18 Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you
have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come.
This is how we know it is the last hour. 19 They went out from
us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they
would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged
to us. 20But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of
you know the truth. 21 I do not write to you because you do
not know the truth, but because you do know it and because no lie comes from
the truth. 22 Who is the liar? It is the man who denies that
Jesus is the Christ. Such a man is the antichrist--he denies the Father and the
Son. 23 No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever
acknowledges the Son has the Father also. 24 See that what you
have heard from the beginning remains in you. If it does, you also will remain
in the Son and in the Father. 25 And this is what he promised
us--even eternal life. 26 I am writing these things to you
about those who are trying to lead you astray. 27 As for you,
the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone
to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that
anointing is real, not counterfeit--just as it has taught you, remain in
him. 28 And now, dear children, continue in him, so that when
he appears we may be confident and unashamed before him at his coming. 29 If
you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who does what is right
has been born of him.
1 How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that
we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the
world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Dear
friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made
known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see
him as he is. 3 Everyone who has this hope in him purifies
himself, just as he is pure. 4 Everyone who sins breaks the
law; in fact, sin is lawlessness. 5But you know that he appeared so
that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin. 6 No
one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either
seen him or known him. 7Dear children, do not let anyone lead you
astray. He who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. 8 He
who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning
from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the
devil's work. 9 No one who is born of God will continue to
sin, because God's seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has
been born of God. 10 This is how we know who the children of
God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is
right is not a child of God; nor is anyone who does not love his brother. 11 This
is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another.12 Do
not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And
why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother's were
righteous. 13 Do not be surprised, my brothers, if the world
hates you. 14 We know that we have passed from death to life,
because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love remains in death. 15 Anyone
who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal
life in him. 16 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ
laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our
brothers. 17 If anyone has material possessions and sees his
brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in
him? 18 Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue
but with actions and in truth. 19 This then is how we know
that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in his
presence 20whenever our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than
our hearts, and he knows everything. 21Dear friends, if our hearts
do not condemn us, we have confidence before God 22 and
receive from him anything we ask, because we obey his commands and do what
pleases him. 23 And this is his command: to believe in the
name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded
us. 24 Those who obey his commands live in him, and he in
them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he
gave us.
1 Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the
spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone
out into the world. 2 This is how you can recognize the Spirit
of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh
is from God, 3 but every spirit that does not acknowledge
Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have
heard is coming and even now is already in the world. 4 You,
dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in
you is greater than the one who is in the world. 5 They are
from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the
world listens to them.6 We are from God, and whoever knows God
listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how
we recognize the Spirit of truth and the spirit of falsehood. 7 Dear
friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves
has been born of God and knows God. 8Whoever does not love does not
know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his
love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live
through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that
he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11Dear
friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No
one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love
is made complete in us. 13 We know that we live in him and he
in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have
seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the
world. 15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God,
God lives in him and he in God. 16 And so we know and rely on
the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and
God in him. 17 In this way, love is made complete among us so
that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we
are like him. 18There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives
out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made
perfect in love. 19 We love because he first loved us. 20 If
anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For
anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom
he has not seen. 21 And he has given us this command: Whoever
loves God must also love his brother.
1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of
God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. 2 This
is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out
his commands. 3 This is love for God: to obey his commands.
And his commands are not burdensome, 4 for everyone born of
God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even
our faith. 5 Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who
believes that Jesus is the Son of God. 6 This is the one who
came by water and blood--Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only, but by
water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the
truth. 7 For there are three that testify: 8 the
Spirit, the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement. 9 We
accept man's testimony, but God's testimony is greater because it is the
testimony of God, which he has given about his Son. 10 Anyone
who believes in the Son of God has this testimony in his heart. Anyone who does
not believe God has made him out to be a liar, because he has not believed the
testimony God has given about his Son. 11 And this is the
testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 He
who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have
life. 13 I write these things to you who believe in the name
of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. 14 This
is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according
to his will, he hears us. 15 And if we know that he hears
us--whatever we ask--we know that we have what we asked of him. 16 If
anyone sees his brother commit a sin that does not lead to death, he should
pray and God will give him life. I refer to those whose sin does not lead to
death. There is a sin that leads to death. I am not saying that he should pray
about that. 17 All wrongdoing is sin, and there is sin that
does not lead to death. 18 We know that anyone born of God
does not continue to sin; the one who was born of God keeps him safe, and the
evil one cannot harm him. 19 We know that we are children of
God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one. 20 We
know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that
we may know him who is true. And we are in him who is true--even in his Son
Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life. 21 Dear
children, keep yourselves from idols.
