1Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know him. 2Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet made manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he is manifested, we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is. 3And everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure. 4Everyone who does sin also does lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness. 5And you know that he was manifested to take away sins; and in him is no sin. 6Whoever abides in him does not sin: whoever sins has not seen him, nor knows him. 7My little children, let no man lead you astray: he who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous: 8he who does sin is of the devil; for the devil sins from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. 9Whoever is begotten of God does no sin, because his seed abides in him: and he cannot sin, because he is begotten of God. 10In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whoever does not do righteousness is not of God, nor he who does not love his brother. 11For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another: 12not as Cain was of the evil one, and slew his brother. And why did he slay him? Because his works were evil, and his brother’s righteous. 13Do not marvel, brothers, if the world hates you. 14We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who does not love abides in death. 15Whoever hates his brother is a murderer: and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. 16By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 17But whoever has the world’s goods, and beholds his brother in need, and shuts up his compassion from him, how does the love of God abide in him? 18My little children, let us not love in word, nor with the tongue; but in deed and truth. 19By this we shall know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our heart before him: 20because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things. 21Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have boldness toward God; 22and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight. 23And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Yeshua Messiah, and love one another, even as he gave us commandment. 24And he who keeps his commandments abides in him, and he in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.