1 See what great love the Father has given us in naming us the children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not see who we are, because it did not see who he was.2 My loved ones, now we are children of God, and at present it is not clear what we are to be. We are certain that at his revelation we will be like him; for we will see him as he is.3 And everyone who has this hope in him makes himself holy, even as he is holy.4 Everyone who is a sinner goes against the law, for sin is going against the law.5 And you have knowledge that he came to take away sin: and in him there is no sin.6 Anyone who is in him does no sin; anyone who is a sinner has not seen him and has no knowledge of him.7 My little children, let no man take you out of the true way: he who does righteousness is upright, even as he is upright;8 The sinner is a child of the Evil One; for the Evil One has been a sinner from the first. And the Son of God was seen on earth so that he might put an end to the works of the Evil One.9 Anyone who is a child of God does no sin, because he still has God's seed in him; he is not able to be a sinner, because God is his Father.10 In this way it is clear who are the children of God and who are the children of the Evil One; anyone who does not do righteousness or who has no love for his brother, is not a child of God.11 Because this is the word which was given to you from the first, that we are to have love for one another;12 Not being of the Evil One like Cain, who put his brother to death. And why did he put him to death? Because his works were evil and his brother's works were good.13 Do not be surprised, my brothers, if the world has no love for you.14 We are conscious that we have come out of death into life because of our love for the brothers. He who has no love is still in death.15 Anyone who has hate for his brother is a taker of life, and you may be certain that no taker of life has eternal life in him.16 In this we see what love is, because he gave his life for us; and it is right for us to give our lives for the brothers.17 But if a man has this world's goods, and sees that his brother is in need, and keeps his heart shut against his brother, how is it possible for the love of God to be in him?18 My little children, do not let our love be in word and in tongue, but let it be in act and in good faith.19 In this way we may be certain that we are true, and may give our heart comfort before him,20 When our heart says that we have done wrong; because God is greater than our heart, and has knowledge of all things.21 My loved ones, if our heart does not say that we have done wrong, we have no fear before him;22 And he gives us all our requests, because we keep his laws and do the things which are pleasing in his eyes.23 And this is his law, that we have faith in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love for one another, even as he said to us.24 He who keeps his laws is in God and God is in him. And the Spirit which he gave us is our witness that he is in us.

1 Videte qualem caritatem dedit nobis Pater, ut filii Dei nominemur et simus. Propter hoc mundus non novit nos : quia non novit eum. 2 Carissimi, nunc filii Dei sumus : et nondum apparuit quid erimus. Scimus quoniam cum apparuerit, similes ei erimus : quoniam videbimus eum sicuti est. 3 Et omnis qui habet hanc spem in eo, sanctificat se, sicut et ille sanctus est. 4 Omnis qui facit peccatum, et iniquitatem facit : et peccatum est iniquitas. 5 Et scitis quia ille apparuit ut peccata nostra tolleret : et peccatum in eo non est. 6 Omnis qui in eo manet, non peccat : et omnis qui peccat, non vidit eum, nec cognovit eum. 7 Filioli, nemo vos seducat. Qui facit justitiam, justus est, sicut et ille justus est. 8 Qui facit peccatum, ex diabolo est : quoniam ab initio diabolus peccat. In hoc apparuit Filius Dei, ut dissolvat opera diaboli. 9 Omnis qui natus est ex Deo, peccatum non facit : quoniam semen ipsius in eo manet, et non potest peccare, quoniam ex Deo natus est.10 In hoc manifesti sunt filii Dei, et filii diaboli. Omnis qui non est justus, non est ex Deo, et qui non diligit fratrem suum : 11 quoniam hc est annuntiatio, quam audistis ab initio, ut diligatis alterutrum. 12 Non sicut Cain, qui ex maligno erat, et occidit fratrem suum. Et propter quid occidit eum ? Quoniam opera ejus maligna erant : fratris autem ejus, justa. 13 Nolite mirari, fratres, si odit vos mundus. 14 Nos scimus quoniam translati sumus de morte ad vitam, quoniam diligimus fratres. Qui non diligit, manet in morte : 15 omnis qui odit fratrem suum, homicida est. Et scitis quoniam omnis homicida non habet vitam ternam in semetipso manentem. 16 In hoc cognovimus caritatem Dei, quoniam ille animam suam pro nobis posuit : et nos debemus pro fratribus animas ponere. 17 Qui habuerit substantiam hujus mundi, et viderit fratrem suum necessitatem habere, et clauserit viscera sua ab eo : quomodo caritas Dei manet in eo ? 18 Filioli mei, non diligamus verbo neque lingua, sed opere et veritate : 19 in hoc cognoscimus quoniam ex veritate sumus : et in conspectu ejus suadebimus corda nostra. 20 Quoniam si reprehenderit nos cor nostrum : major est Deus corde nostro, et novit omnia. 21 Carissimi, si cor nostrum non reprehenderit nos, fiduciam habemus ad Deum : 22 et quidquid petierimus, accipiemus ab eo : quoniam mandata ejus custodimus, et ea, qu sunt placita coram eo, facimus. 23 Et hoc est mandatum ejus : ut credamus in nomine Filii ejus Jesu Christi : et diligamus alterutrum, sicut dedit mandatum nobis. 24 Et qui servat mandata ejus, in illo manet, et ipse in eo : et in hoc scimus quoniam manet in nobis, de Spiritu quem dedit nobis.