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1:1 That which was from the beginning, which /1 we have listened
 to, which /2 we have seen with our own eyes, and our own hands
 have handled concerning the Word of Life--
1:2 the Life was manifested, and we have seen and bear witness,
 and we declare unto you the Life of the Ages which was with the
 Father and was manifested to us--
1:3 that which we have seen and listened to we now announce to
 you also, in order that you also may have fellowship in it with
 us, and this fellowship with us is fellowship with the Father
 and with His Son Jesus Christ.
1:4 And we write these things in order that our joy may be made
 complete.
1:5 This is the /3 Message which we have heard from the Lord
 Jesus and /4 now deliver to you--God is Light, and in Him there
 is no darkness.
1:6 If, while we are living in darkness, we profess to have
 fellowship with Him, we speak falsely and are not adhering to
 the truth.
1:7 But if we live in the light as He 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 claim to be already free from sin, we lead ourselves
 astray and the truth has no place in our hearts.

1:9 If we confess our sins, He is so /1 faithful and just that
 He forgives us our sins and cleanses us from all
 unrighteousness.
1:10 If we deny that we have sinned, we make Him a liar, and His
 Message has no place in our hearts.
2:1 /2 Dear children, I write thus to you in order that you may
 not sin. If any one sins, we have an Advocate with the
 Father--Jesus Christ the righteous;
2:2 and He is an atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for
 ours only, but also for /3 the sins of the whole world.
2:3 And by this we may know that we know Him--if we obey His
 commands.
2:4 He who professes to know Him, and yet does not obey His
 commands, is a liar, and the truth has no place in his heart.
2:5 But whoever obeys His Message, in him love for God has in
 very deed reached perfection. By this we can know that we are
 in Him.
2:6 The man who professes to be continuing in Him is himself
 also bound to live as He lived.
2:7 My dearly-loved friends, it is no new command that I am now
 giving you, but an old command which you have had from the very
 beginning. By the old command I mean the teaching which you
 have already received.
2:8 And yet I *am* giving you a new command, for such it really
 is, so far as both He and you are concerned: because /4 the
 darkness is now passing away and the light, the true light, is
 already beginning to shine.
2:9 Any one who professes to be in the light and yet hates his
 /5 brother man is still in darkness.
2:10 He who loves his brother man continues in the light, and /6
 his life puts no stumbling-block in the way of others.
2:11 But he who hates his brother man is in darkness and is
 walking in darkness; and he does not know where he is
 going--because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

2:12 I am writing to you, dear children, because for His sake
 your sins are forgiven you.
2:13 I am writing to you, fathers, because you know Him who has
 existed from the very beginning. I am writing to you, young
 men, because you have overcome the Evil one. I have written to
 you, children, because you know the Father.
2:14 I have written to you, fathers, because you know Him who
 has existed from the very beginning. I have written to you,
 young men, because you are strong and God's Message still has a
 place in your hearts, and you have overcome the Evil one.
2:15 /1 Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If
 any one loves the world, there is no love in his heart for the
 Father.
2:16 For the things in the world--the cravings of the earthly
 nature, the cravings of the eyes, the show and pride of
 life--they all come, not from the Father, but from the world.
2:17 And the world, with its cravings, is passing away, but he
 who does God's will continues /2 for ever.
2:18 Dear children, /3 the last hour has come; and as you once
 heard that there was to be /4 an anti-Christ, so even now many
 anti-Christs have appeared. By this we may know that the last
 hour has come.
2:19 They have gone forth from our midst, but they did not
 really belong to us; for had they belonged to us, they would
 have remained with us. But they left us that it might be
 manifest that /5 professed believers do not all belong to us.
2:20 As for you, you have an anointing from the holy One /6 and
 have perfect knowledge.

2:21 I have written to you, not because you are ignorant of the
 truth, but because you know it, and you know that nothing false
 comes from the truth.
2:22 Who is /1 a liar compared with /2 him who denies that Jesus
 is the Christ? He who disowns the Father and the Son /3 is the
 anti-Christ.
2:23 No one who disowns the Son has the Father. He who
 acknowledges the Son has also the Father.
2:24 As for you, let the teaching which you have received from
 the very beginning continue in your hearts. If that teaching
 does continue in your hearts, you also will continue to be in
 union with the Son and with the Father.
2:25 And this is the promise which He Himself has given us--the
 Life of the Ages.
2:26 I have thus written to you concerning those who are leading
 you astray.
2:27 And as for you, the anointing which you received from Him
 remains within you, and there is no need for any one to teach
 you. But since His anointing gives you instruction in all
 things--and is true and is no falsehood--you are continuing in
 union with Him even as it has taught you to do.
2:28 And now, dear children, continue in union with Him; so
 that, /4 if He re-appears, we may have perfect confidence, and
 may not shrink away in shame from His presence at His Coming.
2:29 Since you know that He is righteous, be assured also that
 the man who habitually acts righteously is /5 a child of His.
3:1 See /6 what marvellous love the Father has bestowed upon
 us--that we should be called God's children: and that is what
 we are. For this reason the world does not recognize
 us--because it has not known Him.

3:2 Dear friends, we are now God's children, but what we are to
 be in the future has not yet been fully revealed. We know that
 /1 if Christ reappears we shall be like Him, because we shall
 see Him as He is.
3:3 And every man who has this hope fixed on Him, purifies
 himself so as to be as pure as He is.
3:4 Every one who is guilty of sin is also guilty of violating
 Law; for sin is the violation of Law.
3:5 And you know that He /2 appeared in order /3 to take away
 sins; and in Him there is no sin.
3:6 No one who continues in union with Him /4 lives in sin: no
 one who lives in sin has seen Him or knows Him.
3:7 Dear children, let no one lead you astray. The man who acts
 righteously is righteous, just as He is righteous.
3:8 He who is /5 habitually guilty of sin /6 is a child of the
 Devil, because the Devil has been a sinner from the very
 beginning. The Son of God /2 appeared for the purpose of
 undoing the work of the Devil.
3:9 No one who is a child of God is /5 habitually guilty of sin.
 A God-given germ of life remains in him, and he /7 cannot /5
 habitually sin--because he is a child of God.
3:10 By this we can distinguish God's children and the Devil's
 children: no one who fails to act righteously is a child of
 God, nor he who does not love his brother man.
3:11 For this is the Message you have heard from the
 beginning--that we are to love one another.
3:12 We are not to resemble Cain, who was a child of the Evil
 one and killed his own brother. And why did he kill him?
 Because his own actions were wicked and his brother's actions
 righteous.
3:13 Do not be surprised, brethren, if the world hates you.

3:14 As for us, we know that we have already passed out of death
 into Life--because we love our brother men. He who is destitute
 of love /1 continues dead.
3:15 Every one who hates his brother man is a murderer; and you
 know that no murderer has the Life of the Ages continuing in
 him.
3:16 We know what l