1 Everyone who has faith that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God: and everyone who has love for the Father has love for his child.2 In this way, we are certain that we have love for the children of God, when we have love for God and keep his laws.3 For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.4 Anything which comes from God is able to overcome the world: and the power by which we have overcome the world is our faith.5 Who is able to overcome the world but the man who has faith that Jesus is the Son of God?6 This is he who came by water and by blood, Jesus Christ; not by water only but by water and by blood.7 And the Spirit is the witness, because the Spirit is true.8 There are three witnesses, the Spirit, the water, and the blood: and all three are in agreement.9 If we take the witness of men to be true, the witness of God is greater: because this is the witness which God has given about his Son.10 He who has faith in the Son of God has the witness in himself: he who has not faith in God makes him false, because he has not faith in the witness which God has given about his Son.11 And his witness is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.12 He who has the Son has the life; he who has not the Son of God has not the life.13 I have put these things in writing for you who have faith in the name of the Son of God, so that you may be certain that you have eternal life.14 And we are certain that if we make any request to him which is right in his eyes, he will give ear to us:15 And if we are certain that he gives ear to all our requests, we are equally certain that we will get our requests.16 If a man sees his brother doing a sin which is not bad enough for death, let him make a prayer to God, and God will give life to him whose sin was not bad enough for death. There is a sin whose punishment is death: I do not say that he may make such a request then.17 All evil-doing is sin: but death is not the punishment for every sort of sin.18 We are certain that one who is a child of God will do no sin, but the Son of God keeps him so that he is not touched by the Evil One.19 We are certain that we are of God, but all the world is in the power of the Evil One.20 And we are certain that the Son of God has come, and has given us a clear vision, so that we may see him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.21 My little children, keep yourselves from false gods.

1 Omnis qui credit quoniam Jesus est Christus, ex Deo natus est. Et omnis qui diligit eum qui genuit, diligit et eum qui natus est ex eo. 2 In hoc cognoscimus quoniam diligamus natos Dei, cum Deum diligamus, et mandata ejus faciamus. 3 Hc est enim caritas Dei, ut mandata ejus custodiamus : et mandata ejus gravia non sunt. 4 Quoniam omne quod natum est ex Deo, vincit mundum : et hc est victoria, qu vincit mundum, fides nostra. 5 Quis est, qui vincit mundum, nisi qui credit quoniam Jesus est Filius Dei ?6 Hic est, qui venit per aquam et sanguinem, Jesus Christus : non in aqua solum, sed in aqua et sanguine. Et Spiritus est, qui testificatur quoniam Christus est veritas. 7 Quoniam tres sunt, qui testimonium dant in clo : Pater, Verbum, et Spiritus Sanctus : et hi tres unum sunt. 8 Et tres sunt, qui testimonium dant in terra : spiritus, et aqua, et sanguis : et hi tres unum sunt. 9 Si testimonium hominum accipimus, testimonium Dei majus est : quoniam hoc est testimonium Dei, quod majus est, quoniam testificatus est de Filio suo. 10 Qui credit in Filium Dei, habet testimonium Dei in se. Qui non credit Filio, mendacem facit eum : quia non credit in testimonium quod testificatus est Deus de Filio suo. 11 Et hoc est testimonium, quoniam vitam ternam dedit nobis Deus : et hc vita in Filio ejus est. 12 Qui habet Filium, habet vitam : qui non habet Filium, vitam non habet.13 Hc scribo vobis ut sciatis quoniam vitam habetis ternam, qui creditis in nomine Filii Dei. 14 Et hc est fiducia, quam habemus ad eum : quia quodcumque petierimus, secundum voluntatem ejus, audit nos. 15 Et scimus quia audit nos quidquid petierimus : scimus quoniam habemus petitiones quas postulamus ab eo. 16 Qui scit fratrem suum peccare peccatum non ad mortem, petat, et dabitur ei vita peccanti non ad mortem. Est peccatum ad mortem : non pro illo dico ut roget quis. 17 Omnis iniquitas, peccatum est : et est peccatum ad mortem. 18 Scimus quia omnis qui natus est ex Deo, non peccat : sed generatio Dei conservat eum, et malignus non tangit eum. 19 Scimus quoniam ex Deo sumus : et mundus totus in maligno positus est. 20 Et scimus quoniam Filius Dei venit, et dedit nobis sensum ut cognoscamus verum Deum, et simus in vero Filio ejus. Hic est verus Deus, et vita terna. 21 Filioli, custodite vos a simulacris. Amen.