/1-1- THAT WHICH WAS FROM THE BEGINNING
WHICH WE HAVE HEARD
WHICH WE HAVE SEEN WITH OUR EYES
WHICH WE HAVE LOOKED UPON
AND OUR HANDS HAVE HANDLED
OF THE WORD OF LIFE
/1-2- (FOR THE LIFE WAS MANIFESTED
AND WE HAVE SEEN IT
AND BEAR WITNESS
AND SHEW UNTO YOU THAT ETERNAL LIFE
WHICH WAS WITH THE FATHER
AND WAS MANIFESTED UNTO US)
/1-3- THAT WHICH WE HAVE SEEN AND HEARD DECLARE WE UNTO YOU
THAT YE ALSO MAY HAVE FELLOWSHIP WITH US- AND TRULY OUR FELLOWSHIP IS WITH THE FATHER
AND WITH HIS SON JESUS CHRIST.
/1-4- AND THESE THINGS WRITE WE UNTO YOU
THAT YOUR JOY MAY BE FULL.
/1-5- THIS THEN IS THE MESSAGE WHICH WE HAVE HEARD OF HIM
AND DECLARE UNTO YOU
THAT GOD IS LIGHT
AND IN HIM IS NO DARKNESS AT ALL.
/1-6- IF WE SAY THAT WE HAVE FELLOWSHIP WITH HIM
AND WALK IN DARKNESS
WE LIE
AND DO NOT THE TRUTH-
/1-7- BUT IF WE WALK IN THE LIGHT
AS HE IS IN THE LIGHT
WE HAVE FELLOWSHIP ONE WITH ANOTHER
AND THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST HIS SON CLEANSETH US FROM ALL SIN.
/1-8- IF WE SAY THAT WE HAVE NO SIN
WE DECEIVE OURSELVES
AND THE TRUTH IS NOT IN US.
/1-9- IF WE CONFESS OUR SINS
HE IS FAITHFUL AND JUST TO FORGIVE US OUR SINS
AND TO CLEANSE US FROM ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS.
/1-10- IF WE SAY THAT WE HAVE NOT SINNED
WE MAKE HIM A LIAR
AND HIS WORD IS NOT IN US.
/2-1- MY LITTLE CHILDREN
THESE THINGS WRITE I UNTO YOU
THAT YE SIN NOT. AND IF ANY MAN SIN
WE HAVE AN ADVOCATE WITH THE FATHER
JESUS CHRIST THE RIGHTEOUS-
/2-2- AND HE IS THE PROPITIATION FOR OUR SINS- AND NOT FOR OURS ONLY
BUT ALSO FOR THE SINS OF THE WHOLE WORLD.
/2-3- AND HEREBY WE DO KNOW THAT WE KNOW HIM
IF WE KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS.
/2-4- HE THAT SAITH
I KNOW HIM
AND KEEPETH NOT HIS COMMANDMENTS
IS A LIAR
AND THE TRUTH IS NOT IN HIM.
/2-5- BUT WHOSO KEEPETH HIS WORD
IN HIM VERILY IS THE LOVE OF GOD PERFECTED- HEREBY KNOW WE THAT WE ARE IN HIM.
/2-6- HE THAT SAITH HE ABIDETH IN HIM OUGHT HIMSELF ALSO SO TO WALK
EVEN AS HE WALKED.
/2-7- BRETHREN
I WRITE NO NEW COMMANDMENT UNTO YOU
BUT AN OLD COMMANDMENT WHICH YE HAD FROM THE BEGINNING. THE OLD COMMANDMENT IS THE WORD WHICH YE HAVE HEARD FROM THE BEGINNING.
/2-8- AGAIN
A NEW COMMANDMENT I WRITE UNTO YOU
WHICH THING IS TRUE IN HIM AND IN YOU- BECAUSE THE DARKNESS IS PAST
AND THE TRUE LIGHT NOW SHINETH.
/2-9- HE THAT SAITH HE IS IN THE LIGHT
AND HATETH HIS BROTHER
IS IN DARKNESS EVEN UNTIL NOW.
/2-10- HE THAT LOVETH HIS BROTHER ABIDETH IN THE LIGHT
AND THERE IS NONE OCCASION OF STUMBLING IN HIM.
/2-11- BUT HE THAT HATETH HIS BROTHER IS IN DARKNESS
AND WALKETH IN DARKNESS
AND KNOWETH NOT WHITHER HE GOETH
BECAUSE THAT DARKNESS HATH BLINDED HIS EYES.
/2-12- I WRITE UNTO YOU
LITTLE CHILDREN
BECAUSE YOUR SINS ARE FORGIVEN YOU FOR HIS NAME'S SAKE.
/2-13- I WRITE UNTO YOU
FATHERS
BECAUSE YE HAVE KNOWN HIM THAT IS FROM THE BEGINNING. I WRITE UNTO YOU
YOUNG MEN
BECAUSE YE HAVE OVERCOME THE WICKED ONE. I WRITE UNTO YOU
LITTLE CHILDREN
BECAUSE YE HAVE KNOWN THE FATHER.
/2-14- I HAVE WRITTEN UNTO YOU
FATHERS
BECAUSE YE HAVE KNOWN HIM THAT IS FROM THE BEGINNING. I HAVE WRITTEN UNTO YOU
YOUNG MEN
BECAUSE YE ARE STRONG
AND THE WORD OF GOD ABIDETH IN YOU
AND YE HAVE OVERCOME THE WICKED ONE.
/2-15- LOVE NOT THE WORLD
NEITHER THE THINGS THAT ARE IN THE WORLD. IF ANY MAN LOVE THE WORLD
THE LOVE OF THE FATHER IS NOT IN HIM.
/2-16- FOR ALL THAT IS IN THE WORLD
THE LUST OF THE FLESH
AND THE LUST OF THE EYES
AND THE PRIDE OF LIFE
IS NOT OF THE FATHER
BUT IS OF THE WORLD.
/2-17- AND THE WORLD PASSETH AWAY
AND THE LUST THEREOF- BUT HE THAT DOETH THE WILL OF GOD ABIDETH FOR EVER.
/2-18- LITTLE CHILDREN
IT IS THE LAST TIME- AND AS YE HAVE HEARD THAT ANTICHRIST SHALL COME
EVEN NOW ARE THERE MANY ANTICHRISTS WHEREBY WE KNOW THAT IT IS THE LAST TIME.
/2-19- 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 MANIFEST THAT THEY WERE NOT ALL OF US.
/2-20- BUT YE HAVE AN UNCTION FROM THE HOLY ONE
AND YE KNOW ALL THINGS.
/2-21- I HAVE NOT WRITTEN UNTO YOU BECAUSE YE KNOW NOT THE TRUTH
BUT BECAUSE YE KNOW IT
AND THAT NO LIE IS OF THE TRUTH.
/2-22- WHO IS A LIAR BUT HE THAT DENIETH THAT JESUS IS THE CHRIST? HE IS ANTICHRIST
THAT DENIETH THE FATHER AND THE SON.
/2-23- WHOSOEVER DENIETH THE SON
THE SAME HATH NOT THE FATHER- (BUT) HE THAT ACKNOWLEDGETH THE SON HATH THE FATHER ALSO.
/2-24- LET THAT THEREFORE ABIDE IN YOU
WHICH YE HAVE HEARD FROM THE BEGINNING. IF THAT WHICH YE HAVE HEARD FROM THE BEGINNING SHALL REMAIN IN YOU
YE ALSO SHALL CONTINUE IN THE SON
AND IN THE FATHER.
/2-25- AND THIS IS THE PROMISE THAT HE HATH PROMISED US
EVEN ETERNAL LIFE.
/2-26- THESE THINGS HAVE I WRITTEN UNTO YOU CONCERNING THEM THAT SEDUCE YOU.
/2-27- BUT THE ANOINTING WHICH YE HAVE RECEIVED OF HIM ABIDETH IN YOU
AND YE NEED NOT THAT ANY MAN TEACH YOU- BUT AS THE SAME ANOINTING TEACHETH YOU OF ALL THINGS
AND IS TRUTH
AND IS NO LIE
AND EVEN AS IT HATH TAUGHT YOU
YE SHALL ABIDE IN HIM.
/2-28- AND NOW
LITTLE CHILDREN
ABIDE IN HIM THAT
WHEN HE SHALL APPEAR
WE MAY HAVE CONFIDENCE
AND NOT BE ASHAMED BEFORE HIM AT HIS COMING.
/2-29- IF YE KNOW THAT HE IS RIGHTEOUS
YE KNOW THAT EVERY ONE THAT DOETH RIGHTEOUSNESS IS BORN OF HIM.
/3-1- BEHOLD
WHAT MANNER OF LOVE THE FATHER HATH BESTOWED UPON US
THAT WE SHOULD BE CALLED THE SONS OF GOD- THEREFORE THE WORLD KNOWETH US NOT
BECAUSE IT KNEW HIM NOT.
/3-2- BELOVED
NOW ARE WE THE SONS OF GOD
AND IT DOTH NOT YET APPEAR WHAT WE SHALL BE- BUT WE KNOW THAT
WHEN HE SHALL APPEAR
WE SHALL BE LIKE HIM FOR WE SHALL SEE HIM AS HE IS.
/3-3- AND EVERY MAN THAT HATH THIS HOPE IN HIM PURIFIETH HIMSELF
EVEN AS HE IS PURE.
/3-4- WHOSOEVER COMMITTETH SIN TRANSGRESSETH ALSO THE LAW- FOR SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW.
/3-5- AND YE KNOW THAT HE WAS MANIFESTED TO TAKE AWAY OUR SINS AND IN HIM IS NO SIN.
/3-6- WHOSOEVER ABIDETH IN HIM SINNETH NOT- WHOSOEVER SINNETH HATH NOT SEEN HIM
NEITHER KNOWN HIM.
/3-7- LITTLE CHILDREN
LET NO MAN DECEIVE YOU- HE THAT DOETH RIGHTEOUSNESS IS RIGHTEOUS
EVEN AS HE IS RIGHTEOUS.
/3-8- 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.
/3-9- 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.
/3-10- 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.
/3-11- FOR THIS IS THE MESSAGE THAT YE HEARD FROM THE BEGINNING
THAT WE SHOULD LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
/3-12- 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.
/3-13- MARVEL NOT
MY BRETHREN
IF THE WORLD HATE YOU.
/3-14- WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE PASSED FROM DEATH UNTO LIFE
BECAUSE WE LOVE THE BRETHREN. HE THAT LOVETH NOT HIS BROTHER ABIDETH IN DEATH.
/3-15- WHOSOEVER HATETH HIS BROTHER IS A MURDERER- AND YE KNOW THAT NO MURDERER HATH ETERNAL LIFE ABIDING IN HIM.
/3-16- 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.
/3-17- 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?
/3-18- MY LITTLE CHILDREN
LET US NOT LOVE IN WORD
NEITHER IN TONGUE BUT IN DEED AND IN TRUTH.
/3-19- AND HEREBY WE KNOW THAT WE ARE OF THE TRUTH
AND SHALL ASSURE OUR HEARTS BEFORE HIM.
/3-20- FOR IF OUR HEART CONDEMN US
GOD IS GREATER THAN OUR HEART
AND KNOWETH ALL THINGS.
/3-21- BELOVED
IF OUR HEART CONDEMN US NOT
THEN HAVE WE CONFIDENCE TOWARD GOD.
/3-22- AND WHATSOEVER WE ASK
WE RECEIVE OF HIM
BECAUSE WE KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS
AND DO THOSE THINGS THAT ARE PLEASING IN HIS SIGHT.
/3-23- 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.
/3-24- 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.
/4-1- BELOVED
BELIEVE NOT EVERY SPIRIT
BUT TRY THE SPIRITS WHETHER THEY ARE OF GOD- BECAUSE MANY FALSE PROPHETS ARE GONE OUT INTO THE WORLD.
/4-2- HEREBY KNOW YE THE SPIRIT OF GOD- EVERY SPIRIT THAT CONFESSETH THAT JESUS CHRIST IS COME IN THE FLESH IS OF GOD-
/4-3- 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.
/4-4- 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.
/4-5- THEY ARE OF THE WORLD- THEREFORE SPEAK THEY OF THE WORLD
AND THE WORLD HEARETH THEM.
/4-6- 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.
/4-7- BELOVED
LET US LOVE ONE ANOTHER- FOR LOVE IS OF GOD AND EVERY ONE THAT LOVETH IS BORN OF GOD
AND KNOWETH GOD.
/4-8- HE THAT LOVETH NOT KNOWETH NOT GOD FOR GOD IS LOVE.
/4-9- 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.
/4-10- HEREIN IS LOVE
NOT THAT WE LOVED GOD
BUT THAT HE LOVED US
AND SENT HIS SON TO BE THE PROPITIATION FOR OUR SINS.
/4-11- BELOVED
IF GOD SO LOVED US
WE OUGHT ALSO TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
/4-12- NO MAN HATH SEEN GOD AT ANY TIME. IF WE LOVE ONE ANOTHER
GOD DWELLETH IN US
AND HIS LOVE IS PERFECTED IN US.
/4-13- HEREBY KNOW WE THAT WE DWELL IN HIM
AND HE IN US
BECAUSE HE HATH GIVEN US OF HIS SPIRIT.
/4-14- AND WE HAVE SEEN AND DO TESTIFY THAT THE FATHER SENT THE SON TO BE THE SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD.
/4-15- WHOSOEVER SHALL CONFESS THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD
GOD DWELLETH IN HIM
AND HE IN GOD.
/4-16- AND WE HAVE KNOWN AND BELIEVED THE LOVE THAT GOD HATH TO US. GOD IS LOVE AND HE THAT DWELLETH IN LOVE DWELLETH IN GOD
AND GOD IN HIM.
/4-17- HEREIN IS OUR LOVE MADE PERFECT
THAT WE MAY HAVE BOLDNESS IN THE DAY OF JUDGMENT- BECAUSE AS HE IS
SO ARE WE IN THIS WORLD.
/4-18- THERE IS NO FEAR IN LOVE BUT PERFECT LOVE CASTETH OUT FEAR- BECAUSE FEAR HATH TORMENT. HE THAT FEARETH IS NOT MADE PERFECT IN LOVE.
/4-19- WE LOVE HIM
BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED US.
/4-20- IF A MAN SAY
I LOVE GOD
AND HATETH HIS BROTHER
HE IS A LIAR- FOR HE THAT LOVETH NOT HIS BROTHER WHOM HE HATH SEEN
HOW CAN HE LOVE GOD WHOM HE HATH NOT SEEN?
/4-21- AND THIS COMMANDMENT HAVE WE FROM HIM
THAT HE WHO LOVETH GOD LOVE HIS BROTHER ALSO.
/5-1- WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH THAT JESUS IS THE CHRIST IS BORN OF GOD- AND EVERY ONE THAT LOVETH HIM THAT BEGAT LOVETH HIM ALSO THAT IS BEGOTTEN OF HIM.
/5-2- BY THIS WE KNOW THAT WE LOVE THE CHILDREN OF GOD
WHEN WE LOVE GOD
AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS.
/5-3- FOR THIS IS THE LOVE OF GOD
THAT WE KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS- AND HIS COMMANDMENTS ARE NOT GRIEVOUS.
/5-4- FOR WHATSOEVER IS BORN OF GOD OVERCOMETH THE WORLD- AND THIS IS THE VICTORY THAT OVERCOMETH THE WORLD
EVEN OUR FAITH.
/5-5- WHO IS HE THAT OVERCOMETH THE WORLD
BUT HE THAT BELIEVETH THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD?
/5-6- THIS IS HE THAT CAME BY WATER AND BLOOD
EVEN JESUS CHRIST NOT BY WATER ONLY
BUT BY WATER AND BLOOD. AND IT IS THE SPIRIT THAT BEARETH WITNESS
BECAUSE THE SPIRIT IS TRUTH.
/5-7- FOR THERE ARE THREE THAT BEAR RECORD IN HEAVEN
THE FATHER
THE WORD
AND THE HOLY GHOST- AND THESE THREE ARE ONE.
/5-8- AND THERE ARE THREE THAT BEAR WITNESS IN EARTH
THE SPIRIT
AND THE WATER
AND THE BLOOD- AND THESE THREE AGREE IN ONE.
/5-9- IF WE RECEIVE THE WITNESS OF MEN
THE WITNESS OF GOD IS GREATER- FOR THIS IS THE WITNESS OF GOD WHICH HE HATH TESTIFIED OF HIS SON.
/5-10- HE THAT BELIEVETH ON THE SON OF GOD HATH THE WITNESS IN HIMSELF- HE THAT BELIEVETH NOT GOD HATH MADE HIM A LIAR BECAUSE HE BELIEVETH NOT THE RECORD THAT GOD GAVE OF HIS SON.
/5-11- AND THIS IS THE RECORD
THAT GOD HATH GIVEN TO US ETERNAL LIFE
AND THIS LIFE IS IN HIS SON.
/5-12- HE THAT HATH THE SON HATH LIFE AND HE THAT HATH NOT THE SON OF GOD HATH NOT LIFE.
/5-13- THESE THINGS HAVE I WRITTEN UNTO YOU THAT BELIEVE ON THE NAME OF THE SON OF GOD THAT YE MAY KNOW THAT YE HAVE ETERNAL LIFE
AND THAT YE MAY BELIEVE ON THE NAME OF THE SON OF GOD.
/5-14- AND THIS IS THE CONFIDENCE THAT WE HAVE IN HIM
THAT
IF WE ASK ANY THING ACCORDING TO HIS WILL
HE HEARETH US-
/5-15- AND IF WE KNOW THAT HE HEAR US
WHATSOEVER WE ASK
WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE THE PETITIONS THAT WE DESIRED OF HIM.
/5-16- IF ANY MAN SEE HIS BROTHER SIN A SIN WHICH IS NOT UNTO DEATH
HE SHALL ASK
AND HE SHALL GIVE HIM LIFE FOR THEM THAT SIN NOT UNTO DEATH. THERE IS A SIN UNTO DEATH- I DO NOT SAY THAT HE SHALL PRAY FOR IT.
/5-17- ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS IS SIN- AND THERE IS A SIN NOT UNTO DEATH.
/5-18- WE KNOW THAT WHOSOEVER IS BORN OF GOD SINNETH NOT BUT HE THAT IS BEGOTTEN OF GOD KEEPETH HIMSELF
AND THAT WICKED ONE TOUCHETH HIM NOT.
/5-19- AND WE KNOW THAT WE ARE OF GOD
AND THE WHOLE WORLD LIETH IN WICKEDNESS.
/5-20- AND WE KNOW THAT THE SON OF GOD IS COME
AND HATH GIVEN US AN UNDERSTANDING
THAT WE MAY KNOW HIM THAT IS TRUE
AND WE ARE IN HIM THAT IS TRUE
EVEN IN HIS SON JESUS CHRIST. THIS IS THE TRUE GOD
AND ETERNAL LIFE.
/5-21- LITTLE CHILDREN
KEEP YOURSELVES FROM IDOLS. AMEN.
