1 My kinders, ek skryf hierdie dinge aan julle, dat julle nie moet sondig nie; en as iemand gesondig het, ons het 'n Voorspraak by die Vader, Jesus Christus, die Regverdige.
2 En Hy is 'n versoening vir ons sondes, en nie alleen vir ons s'n nie, maar ook vir die van die hele wêreld.
3 En hieraan weet ons dat ons Hom ken: as ons sy gebooie bewaar.
4 Hy wat sê: Ek ken Hom, en sy gebooie nie bewaar nie, is 'n leuenaar en in hom is die waarheid nie.
5 Maar elkeen wat sy woord bewaar, in hom het die liefde van God waarlik volmaak geword. Hieraan weet ons dat ons in Hom is.
6 Hy wat sê dat hy in Hom bly, behoort self ook so te wandel soos Hy gewandel het.
7 Broeders, dit is geen nuwe gebod wat ek aan julle skryf nie, maar 'n ou gebod wat julle van die begin af gehad het. Die ou gebod is die woord wat julle van die begin af gehoor het.
8 En tog skryf ek aan julle 'n nuwe gebod wat waar is in Hom en in julle, want die duisternis gaan verby en die waaragtige lig skyn alreeds.
9 Hy wat sê dat hy in die lig is en sy broeder haat, is in die duisternis tot nou toe.
10 Wie sy broeder liefhet, bly in die lig, en in hom is geen oorsaak van struikeling nie.
11 Maar hy wat sy broeder haat, is in die duisternis en wandel in die duisternis en weet nie waarheen hy gaan nie, omdat die duisternis sy oë verblind het.
12 Ek skryf aan julle, my kinders, omdat die sondes julle vergewe is om sy Naam ontwil.
13 Ek skryf aan julle, vaders, omdat julle Hom ken wat van die begin af is. Ek skryf aan julle, jongmanne, omdat julle die Bose oorwin het. Ek skryf aan julle, kinders, omdat julle die Vader ken.
14 Ek het aan julle geskrywe, vaders, omdat julle Hom ken wat van die begin af is. Ek het aan julle geskrywe, jongmanne, omdat julle sterk is en die woord van God in julle bly en julle die Bose oorwin het.
15 Moenie die wêreld liefhê of die dinge wat in die wêreld is nie. As iemand die wêreld liefhet, dan is die liefde van die Vader nie in hom nie.
16 Want alles wat in die wêreld is -- die begeerlikheid van die vlees en die begeerlikheid van die oë en die grootsheid van die lewe -- is nie uit die Vader nie, maar is uit die wêreld.
17 En die wêreld gaan verby en sy begeerlikheid, maar hy wat die wil van God doen, bly vir ewig.
18 Kinders, dit is die laaste uur; en soos julle gehoor het dat die Antichris kom, bestaan daar ook nou baie antichriste, waaruit ons weet dat dit die laaste uur is.
19 Hulle het van ons uitgegaan, maar hulle was nie van ons nie; want as hulle van ons was, sou hulle by ons gebly het; maar dit moes aan die lig kom dat hulle nie almal van ons is nie.
20 En julle het die salwing van die Heilige en weet alles.
21 Ek het nie aan julle geskrywe omdat julle die waarheid nie ken nie, maar omdat julle dit ken en omdat geen leuen uit die waarheid is nie.
22 Wie is die leuenaar, behalwe hy wat ontken dat Jesus die Christus is? Dit is die Antichris wat die Vader en die Seun loën.
23 Elkeen wat die Seun loën, het ook nie die Vader nie.
24 Wat julle dan van die begin af gehoor het, laat dit in julle bly. As in julle bly wat julle van die begin af gehoor het, dan sal julle ook in die Seun en in die Vader bly.
25 En dit is die belofte wat Hy ons beloof het, naamlik die ewige lewe.
26 Dit het ek aan julle geskrywe met betrekking tot die wat julle mislei.
27 En die salwing wat julle van Hom ontvang het, bly in julle, en julle het nie nodig dat iemand julle leer nie; maar soos dieselfde salwing julle aangaande alles leer, so is dit ook waar en geen leuen nie; en soos die julle geleer het, so moet julle in Hom bly.
28 En nou, my kinders, bly in Hom, sodat ons vrymoedigheid kan hê wanneer Hy verskyn en nie beskaamd van Hom weggaan by sy wederkoms nie.
29 As julle weet dat Hy regverdig is, dan weet julle dat elkeen wat die geregtigheid doen, uit Hom gebore is.
1 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may be without sin. And if any man is a sinner, we have a friend and helper with the Father, Jesus Christ, the upright one:
2 He is the offering for our sins; and not for ours only, but for all the world.
3 And by this we may be certain that we have knowledge of him, if we keep his laws.
4 The man who says, I have knowledge of him, and does not keep his laws, is false, and there is nothing true in him:
5 But in every man who keeps his word, the love of God is made complete. By this we may be certain that we are in him:
6 He who says that he is living in him, will do as he did.
7 My loved ones, I do not give you a new law, but an old law which you had from the first; this old law is the word which came to your ears.
8 Again, I give you a new law, which is true in him and in you; for the night is near its end and the true light is even now shining out.
9 He who says that he is in the light, and has hate in his heart for his brother, is still in the dark.
10 He who has love for his brother is in the light, and there is no cause of error in him.
11 But he who has hate for his brother is in the dark, walking in the dark with no knowledge of where he is going, unable to see because of the dark.
12 I am writing to you, my children, because you have forgiveness of sins through his name.
13 I am writing to you, fathers, because you have knowledge of him who was from the first. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the Evil One. I have sent a letter to you, children, because you have knowledge of the Father.
14 I have sent a letter to you, fathers, because you have knowledge of him who was from the first. I have sent a letter to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God is in you, and because you have overcome the Evil One.
15 Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world.
17 And the world and its desires is coming to an end: but he who does God's pleasure is living for ever.
18 Little children, it is the last hour; and as you were given word that the Antichrist would come, so now a number of Antichrists have come to you; and by this we are certain that it is the last hour.
19 They went out from us but they were not of us; if they had been of us they would still be with us: but they went out from us so that it might be made clear that they were not of us.
20 And you have the Spirit from the Holy One and you all have knowledge.
21 I have not sent you this letter because you have no knowledge of what is true, but because you have knowledge, and because that which is false has nothing in common with that which is true.
22 Who is false but he who says that Jesus is not the Christ? He is the Antichrist who has no belief in the Father or the Son.
23 He who has no belief in the Son has not the Father: he who makes clear his belief in the Son has the Father.
24 But as for you, keep in your hearts the things which were made clear to you from the first. If you keep these things in your hearts you will be kept in the Father and the Son.
25 And this is the hope which he gave you, even eternal life.
26 I am writing these things to you about those whose purpose is that you may be turned out of the true way.
27 As for you, the Spirit which he gave you is still in you, and you have no need of any teacher; but as his Spirit gives you teaching about all things, and is true and not false, so keep your hearts in him, through the teaching which he has given you.
28 And now, my children, keep your hearts in him; so that at his revelation, we may have no fear or shame before him at his coming.
29 If you have knowledge that he is upright, it is clear to you that everyone who does righteousness is his offspring.