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But he that hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and knows not where he goes, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

I write to you, children, because [your] sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.

I write to you, fathers, because ye have known him [that is] from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked [one]. I write to you, little children, because ye have known the Father.

I have written to you, fathers, because ye have known him [that is] from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and ye have overcome the wicked [one].

because 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.

I have not written to you because ye do not know the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

See what love the Father has given to us, that we should be called [the] children of God. For this reason the world knows us not, because it knew him not.

Whoever has been begotten of God does not practise sin, because his seed abides in him, and he cannot sin, because he has been begotten of God.

not as Cain was of the wicked one, and slew his brother; and on account of what slew he him? because his works were wicked, and those of his brother righteous.

*We* know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love [his] brother abides in death.

Hereby we have known love, because *he* has laid down his life for us; and *we* ought for the brethren to lay down [our] lives.

and whatsoever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments, and practise the things which are pleasing in his sight.

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, if they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

*Ye* are of God, children, and have overcome them, because greater is he that [is] in you than he that [is] in the world.

Beloved, let us love one another; because love is of God, and every one that loves has been begotten of God, and knows God.

*We* love because *he* has first loved us.

He that believes on the Son of God has the witness in himself; he that does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the witness which God has witnessed concerning his Son.

Woe to them! because they have gone in the way of Cain, and given themselves up to the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.

Behold, he comes with the clouds, and every eye shall see him, and they which have pierced him, and all the tribes of the land shall wail because of him. Yea. Amen.

But thou hast a few names in Sardis which have not defiled their garments, and they shall walk with me in white, because they are worthy.