1 JOHN
CHAPTER ONE
1:1 What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and our hands have touched, concerning the Word of Life
1:2 and the life was revealed and we have seen and we testify and we proclaim to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us,
1:3 what we have seen and heard we proclaim to you also, so that you too may have fellowship with us;
and indeed our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ.
1:4 These things we write, so that our joy may be made complete.
1:5 This is the message we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in him there is no darkness at all.
1:6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him and are walking in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth;
1:7 but if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses 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 righteous so that he forgives us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1:10 If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar and his word is not in us.
CHAPTER TWO
2:1 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous;
2:2 and he himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
2:3 Now by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments.
2:4 The one who says, “I have come to know him,” and does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;
2:5 but whoever keeps his word, truly in him, the love of God has been perfected. By this we know we are in him.
2:6 The one who says he abides in him, ought himself to walk in the same manner as that one [Jesus] walked.
2:7 Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you have heard.
2:8 On the other hand, I am writing a new commandment to you, which is true in him [Christ] and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true Light is now shining.
2:9 The one who says he is in the light and yet hates his brother is in the darkness until now.
2:10 The one who says he loves his brother abides in the light and there is no cause for stumbling in him.
2:11 But the one who hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
2:12 I am writing to you, little children, that your sins have been forgiven you on account his name.
2:13 I am writing to you, fathers, that you have known him who has been from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, that you have overcome the evil one.
2:14 I have written to you children, that you have known the Father. I have written to you, fathers, that you have known him who has been from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, that you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.
2:15 Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves 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 boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.
2:17 The world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God abides forever.
2:18 Dear children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour.
2:19 Out from us they went, but they were not really out from us, because if they had really been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out so that they might be revealed that all are not of us.
2:20 But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know.
2:21 I have not written to you that you do not know the truth, but that you do know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
2:22 Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son.
2:23 Everyone who denies the Son does not have the Father; he who confesses the Son also has the Father.
2:24 As for you, what you have heard from the beginning, let that abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father.
2:25 Now this is the promise that he himself made to us: eternal life.
2:26 These things I have written to you concerning those who are deceiving you.
2:27 Now as for you, the anointing that you received from him abides in you and you have no need that anyone should teach you; but as His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not false, and just as it has taught you, you abide in Him.
2:28 And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he is revealed, we may have confidence and not shrink away from him in shame at his coming.
2:29 If you have known that he is righteous, you know also that everyone who practices righteousness has been born from him.
CHAPTER THREE
3:1 See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called the children of God and indeed we are. For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him. 3:2 Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not yet been revealed what we will be. We know that when he appears, we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is. 3:3 And everyone who has this hope focused on him purifies himself, just as he is pure. 3:4 Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness. 3:5 You know that he was revealed in order to take away sins; and in him there is no sin. 3:6 Everyone who abides in him does not sin [as a lifestyle]; Everyone who sins [as a lifestyle] has not seen him or known him. 3:7 Dear children let no one deceive you; the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as he [Christ] is righteous; 3:8 The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this reason the Son of God appeared so that he might destroy the works of the devil. 3:9 Everyone who has been born of God does not keep practicing sin, because his [God’s] seed abides in him; and he cannot go on sinning, because he is born of God. 3:10 By this the children of God and the children of the devil are evident: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother [Christian]. 3:11 For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another; 3:12 not as Cain, who was of the evil one and slew his brother. And for what reason did he slay him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s were righteous. 3:13 Do not be surprised, brethren, if the world hates you. 3:14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love abides in death. 3:15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer; and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. 3:16 We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 3:17 But whoever has the world’s possessions and sees his brother having need and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him? 3:18 Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in works and truth. 3:19 And by this we will know that we are of the truth, and will reassure our heart before him, 3:20 whenever our hearts condemn us; for God is greaterthan our hearts and knows all things. 3:21 Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God; 3:22 and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing before him. 3:23 Now this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, just as he gave us the commandment. 3:24 The one who keeps his commandments abides in him, and he in him. We know by this that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.
CHAPTER FOUR
4:1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 4:2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God; 4:3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus [Christ has come in the flesh] is not from God and this is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now is already in the world. 4:4 You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he [God] who is in you than he who is in the world. 4:5 They are from the world; therefore they speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. 4:6 We are from God; he who knows God listens to us; he who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another because love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 4:8 The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 4:9 By this the love of God has been revealed in us: that God has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we may live through him. 4:10 In this 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, then we also ought to love one another. 4:12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God resides in us and his love has been perfected in us. 4:13 By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 4:14 We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. 4:15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 4:16 We have come to know and have believed the love which God has in us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 4:17 By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as he [Christ] is, so also are we in this world. 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears has not been perfected in love. 4:19 We love because he first loved us. 4:20 If someone says, “I love God,” and yet hates his brother, he is a liar; or the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. 4:21 And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God should love his brother also.
CHAPTER FIVE
5:1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God and everyone who loves the Father loves the one born of him. 5:2 By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and obey his commandments. 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments; and his commandments are not burdensome. 5:4 For everyone born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world, our faith. 5:5 Who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? 5:6 This is the One who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and with the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. 5:7 For there are three that testify: 5:8 the Spirit and the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement. 5:9 If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater; for the testimony of God is this, that he has testified concerning his Son. 5:10 The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has made him [God] a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified about his Son.) 5:11 And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 5:12 The one who has the Son has this eternal life; the one who does not have the Son of God does not have this life. 5:13 These things I have written to you that you may know that you have eternal life, to those who believe in the name of the Son of God. 5:14 This is the confidence which we have before him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 5:15 And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from him. 5:16 If anyone sees his brother sinning sin not unto death, he shall ask and God will for him give life to those sinning sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death. I do not say that he should make request for this. 5:17 All unrighteousness is sin, and there is sin not unto death. 5:18 We know that everyone born by God does not sin but he who was born of God, God keeps his own, and the evil one does not touch him. 5:19 We know that we are of God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. 5:20 And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding so that we may know him [God] who is true; and we are in him [God] who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life. 5:21 Little children, guard yourselves from idols.