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because I know that I will soon put it aside, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.

Yet I am writing you a new command; its truth is seen in him and you, because the darkness is passing and the true light is already shining.

But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness; he does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded him.

I write to you, dear children, because your sins have been forgiven on account of his name.

I write to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, dear children, because you have known the Father.

I write to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God lives in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

I do not write to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it and because no lie comes from the truth.

He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work.

No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.

Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother's were righteous.

We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love remains in death.

and receive from him anything we ask, because we obey his commands and do what pleases him.

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him.

There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

We love because he first loved us.

This is the one who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.