1 John 1-3

I John 1

¹That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we did behold, and our hands did handle, concerning the Word of the Life --

²and the Life was manifested, and we have seen, and do testify, and declare to you the Life, the age-during, which was with the Father, and was manifested to us --

³that which we have seen and heard declare we to you, that ye also may have fellowship with us, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ;

⁴and these things we write to you, that your joy may be full.

⁵And this is the message that we have heard from Him, and announce to you, that God is light, and darkness in Him is not at all;

⁶if we may say -- ‘we have fellowship with Him,' and in the darkness may walk -- we lie, and do not the truth;

⁷and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light -- we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;

⁸if we may say -- ‘we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us;

⁹if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

¹⁰if we may say -- ‘we have not sinned,' a liar we make Him, and His word is not in us.

I John 2

¹My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one,

²and he -- he is a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world,

³and in this we know that we have known him, if his commands we may keep;

⁴he who is saying, ‘I have known him,' and his command is not keeping, a liar he is, and in him the truth is not;

⁵and whoever may keep his word, truly in him the love of God hath been perfected; in this we know that in him we are.

⁶He who is saying in him he doth remain, ought according as he walked also himself so to walk.

⁷Brethren, a new command I write not to you, but an old command, that ye had from the beginning -- the old command is the word that ye heard from the beginning;

⁸again, a new command I write to you, which thing is true in him and in you, because the darkness doth pass away, and the true light doth now shine;

⁹he who is saying, in the light he is, and his brother is hating, in the darkness he is till now;

¹⁰he who is loving his brother, in the light he doth remain, and a stumbling-block in him there is not;

¹¹and he who is hating his brother, in the darkness he is, and in the darkness he doth walk, and he hath not known whither he doth go, because the darkness did blind his eyes.

¹²I write to you, little children, because the sins have been forgiven you through his name;

¹³I write to you, fathers, because ye have known him who is from the beginning; I write to you, young men, because ye have overcome the evil. I write to you, little youths, because ye have known the Father:

¹⁴I did write to you, fathers, because ye have known him who is from the beginning; I did write to you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God in you doth remain, and ye have overcome the evil.

¹⁵Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

¹⁶because all that is in the world -- the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life -- is not of the Father, but of the world,

¹⁷and the world doth pass away, and the desire of it, and he who is doing the will of God, he doth remain -- to the age.

¹⁸Little youths, it is the last hour; and even as ye heard that the antichrist doth come, even now antichrists have become many -- whence we know that it is the last hour;

¹⁹out of us they went forth, but they were not of us, for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but -- that they might be manifested that they are not all of us.

²⁰And ye have an anointing from the Holy One, and have known all things;

²¹I did not write to you because ye have not known the truth, but because ye have known it, and because no lie is of the truth.

²²Who is the liar, except he who is denying that Jesus is the Christ? this one is the antichrist who is denying the Father and the Son;

²³every one who is denying the Son, neither hath he the Father, he who is confessing the Son hath the Father also.

²⁴Ye, then, that which ye heard from the beginning, in you let it remain; if in you may remain that which from the beginning ye did hear, ye also in the Son and in the Father shall remain,

²⁵and this is the promise that He did promise us -- the life the age-during.

²⁶These things I did write to you concerning those leading you astray;

²⁷and you, the anointing that ye did receive from him, in you it doth remain, and ye have no need that any one may teach you, but as the same anointing doth teach you concerning all, and is true, and is not a lie, and even as was taught you, ye shall remain in him.

²⁸And now, little children, remain in him, that when he may be manifested, we may have boldness, and may not be ashamed before him, in his presence;

²⁹if ye know that he is righteous, know ye that every one doing the righteousness, of him hath been begotten.

I John 3

¹See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;

²beloved, now, children of God are we, and it was not yet manifested what we shall be, and we have known that if he may be manifested, like him we shall be, because we shall see him as he is;

³and every one who is having this hope on him, doth purify himself, even as he is pure.

⁴Every one who is doing the sin, the lawlessness also he doth do, and the sin is the lawlessness,

⁵and ye have known that he was manifested that our sins he may take away, and sin is not in him;

⁶every one who is remaining in him doth not sin; every one who is sinning, hath not seen him, nor known him.

⁷Little children, let no one lead you astray; he who is doing the righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous,

⁸he who is doing the sin, of the devil he is, because from the beginning the devil doth sin; for this was the Son of God manifested, that he may break up the works of the devil;

⁹every one who hath been begotten of God, sin he doth not, because his seed in him doth remain, and he is not able to sin, because of God he hath been begotten.

¹⁰In this manifest are the children of God, and the children of the devil; every one who is not doing righteousness, is not of God, and he who is not loving his brother,

¹¹because this is the message that ye did hear from the beginning, that we may love one another,

¹²not as Cain -- of the evil one he was, and he did slay his brother, and wherefore did he slay him? because his works were evil, and those of his brother righteous.

¹³Do not wonder, my brethren, if the world doth hate you;

¹⁴we -- we have known that we have passed out of the death to the life, because we love the brethren; he who is not loving the brother doth remain in the death.

¹⁵Every one who is hating his brother -- a man-killer he is, and ye have known that no man-killer hath life age-during in him remaining,

¹⁶in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down;

¹⁷and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him -- how doth the love of God remain in him?

¹⁸My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

¹⁹and in this we know that of the truth we are, and before Him we shall assure our hearts,

²⁰because if our heart may condemn -- because greater is God than our heart, and He doth know all things.

²¹Beloved, if our heart may not condemn us, we have boldness toward God,

²²and whatever we may ask, we receive from Him, because His commands we keep, and the things pleasing before Him we do,

²³and this is His command, that we may believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and may love one another, even as He did give command to us,

²⁴and he who is keeping His commands, in Him he doth remain, and He in him; and in this we know that He doth remain in us, from the Spirit that He gave us.