1Jo
1:1 That which was from the
first, which has come to our ears, and which we have seen with our eyes,
looking on it and touching it with our hands, about the Word of life
1Jo
1:2 (And the life was made
clear to us, and we have seen it and are witnessing to it and giving you word
of that eternal life which was with the Father and was seen by us);
1Jo
1:3 We give you word of all we
have seen and everything which has come to our ears, so that you may be united
with us; and we are united with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ:
1Jo
1:4 And we are writing these
things to you so that our joy may be made complete.
1Jo
1:5 This is the word which
came to us from him and which we give to you, that God is light and in him
there is nothing dark.
1Jo
1:6 If we say we are joined to
him, and are walking still in the dark, our words are false and our acts are
untrue:
1Jo
1:7 But if we are walking in
the light, as he is in the light, we are all united with one another, and the
blood of Jesus his Son makes us clean from all sin.
1Jo
1:8 If we say that we have no
sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us.
1Jo
1:9 If we say openly that we
have done wrong, he is upright and true to his word, giving us forgiveness of
sins and making us clean from all evil.
1Jo
1:10 If we say that we have no
sin, we make him false and his word is not in us.
1Jo
2:1 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:
1Jo
2:2 He is the offering for our
sins; and not for ours only, but for all the world.
1Jo
2:3 And by this we may be
certain that we have knowledge of him, if we keep his laws.
1Jo
2:4 The man who says, I have
knowledge of him, and does not keep his laws, is false, and there is nothing
true in him:
1Jo
2:5 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:
1Jo
2:6 He who says that he is
living in him, will do as he did.
1Jo
2:7 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.
1Jo
2:8 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.
1Jo
2:9 He who says that he is in
the light, and has hate in his heart for his brother, is still in the dark.
1Jo
2:10 He who has love for his
brother is in the light, and there is no cause of error in him.
1Jo
2:11 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.
1Jo
2:12 I am writing to you, my
children, because you have forgiveness of sins through his name.
1Jo
2:13 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.
1Jo
2:14 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.
1Jo
2:15 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.
1Jo
2:16 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.
1Jo
2:17 And the world and its
desires is coming to an end: but he who does God's pleasure is living for ever.
1Jo
2:18 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.
1Jo
2:19 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.
1Jo
2:20 And you have the Spirit
from the Holy One and you all have knowledge.
1Jo
2:21 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.
1Jo
2:22 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.
1Jo
2:23 He who has no belief in
the Son has not the Father: he who makes clear his belief in the Son has the
Father.
1Jo
2:24 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.
1Jo
2:25 And this is the hope which
he gave you, even eternal life.
1Jo
2:26 I am writing these things
to you about those whose purpose is that you may be turned out of the true way.
1Jo
2:27 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.
1Jo
2:28 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.
1Jo
2:29 If you have knowledge that
he is upright, it is clear to you that everyone who does righteousness is his
offspring.
1Jo
3:1 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.
1Jo
3:2 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.
1Jo
3:3 And everyone who has this
hope in him makes himself holy, even as he is holy.
1Jo
3:4 Everyone who is a sinner
goes against the law, for sin is going against the law.
1Jo
3:5 And you have knowledge
that he came to take away sin: and in him there is no sin.
1Jo
3:6 Anyone who is in him does
no sin; anyone who is a sinner has not seen him and has no knowledge of him.
1Jo
3:7 My little children, let no
man take you out of the true way: he who does righteousness is upright, even as
he is upright;
1Jo
3:8 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.
1Jo
3:9 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.
1Jo
3:10 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.
1Jo
3:11 Because this is the word
which was given to you from the first, that we are to have love for one
another;
1Jo
3:12 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.
1Jo
3:13 Do not be surprised, my
brothers, if the world has no love for you.
1Jo
3:14 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.
1Jo
3:15 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.
1Jo
3:16 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.
1Jo
3:17 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?
1Jo
3:18 My little children, do not
let our love be in word and in tongue, but let it be in act and in good faith.
1Jo
3:19 In this way we may be
certain that we are true, and may give our heart comfort before him,
1Jo
3:20 When our heart says that
we have done wrong; because God is greater than our heart, and has knowledge of
all things.
1Jo
3:21 My loved ones, if our
heart does not say that we have done wrong, we have no fear before him;
1Jo
3:22 And he gives us all our requests,
because we keep his laws and do the things which are pleasing in his eyes.
1Jo
3:23 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.
1Jo
3:24 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.
1Jo
4:1 My loved ones, do not put
your faith in every spirit, but put them to the test, to see if they are from
God: because a great number of false prophets have gone out into the world.
1Jo
4:2 By this you may have
knowledge of the Spirit of God: every spirit which says that Jesus Christ has
come in the flesh is of God:
1Jo
4:3 And every spirit which
does not say this is not from God: this is the spirit of Antichrist, of which
you have had word; and it is in the world even now.
1Jo
4:4 You are of God, my little
children, and you have overcome them because he who is in you is greater than
he who is in the world.
1Jo
4:5 They are of the world, so
their talk is the world's talk, and the world gives ear to them.
1Jo
4:6 We are of God: he who has
the knowledge of God gives ear to us; he who is not of God does not give ear to
us. By this we may see which is the true spirit, and which is the spirit of
error.
1Jo
4:7 My loved ones, let us have
love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a
child of God and has knowledge of God.
1Jo
4:8 He who has no love has no
knowledge of God, because God is love.
1Jo
4:9 And the love of God was
made clear to us when he sent his only Son into the world so that we might have
life through him.
1Jo
4:10 And this is love, not that
we had love for God, but that he had love for us, and sent his Son to be an
offering for our sins.
1Jo
4:11 My loved ones, if God had
such love for us, it is right for us to have love for one another.
1Jo
4:12 No man has ever seen God:
if we have love for one another, God is in us and his love is made complete in
us:
1Jo
4:13 And his Spirit which he
has given us is the witness that we are in him and he is in us.
1Jo
4:14 And we have seen and give
witness that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
1Jo
4:15 Everyone who says openly
that Jesus is the Son of God, has God in him and is in God.
1Jo
4:16 And we have seen and had
faith in the love which God has for us. God is love, and everyone who has love
is in God, and God is in him.
1Jo
4:17 In this way love is made
complete in us, so that we may be without fear on the day of judging, because
as he is, so are we in this world.
1Jo
4:18 There is no fear in love:
true love has no room for fear, because where fear is, there is pain; and he
who is not free from fear is not complete in love.
1Jo
4:19 We have the power of
loving, because he first had love for us.
1Jo
4:20 If a man says, I have love
for God, and has hate for his brother, his words are false: for how is the man
who has no love for his brother whom he has seen, able to have love for God
whom he has not seen?
1Jo
4:21 And this is the word which
we have from him, that he who has love for God is to have the same love for his
brother.
1Jo
5:1 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.
1Jo
5:2 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.
1Jo
5:3 For loving God is keeping
his laws: and his laws are not hard.
1Jo
5:4 Anything which comes from
God is able to overcome the world: and the power by which we have overcome the
world is our faith.
1Jo
5:5 Who is able to overcome
the world but the man who has faith that Jesus is the Son of God?
1Jo
5:6 This is he who came by
water and by blood, Jesus Christ; not by water only but by water and by blood.
1Jo
5:7 And the Spirit is the
witness, because the Spirit is true.
1Jo
5:8 There are three witnesses,
the Spirit, the water, and the blood: and all three are in agreement.
1Jo
5:9 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.
1Jo
5:10 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.
1Jo
5:11 And his witness is this,
that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
1Jo
5:12 He who has the Son has the
life; he who has not the Son of God has not the life.
1Jo
5:13 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.
1Jo
5:14 And we are certain that if
we make any request to him which is right in his eyes, he will give ear to us:
1Jo
5:15 And if we are certain that
he gives ear to all our requests, we are equally certain that we will get our
requests.
1Jo
5:16 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.
1Jo
5:17 All evil-doing is sin: but
death is not the punishment for every sort of sin.
1Jo
5:18 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.
1Jo
5:19 We are certain that we are
of God, but all the world is in the power of the Evil One.
1Jo
5:20 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.
1Jo
5:21 My little children, keep
yourselves from false gods.