1 John 2:3–17

³And in this we know that we have known him, if his commands we may keep; ⁴he who is saying, ‘I have known him,’ and his command is not keeping, a liar he is, and in him the truth is not; ⁵and whoever may keep his word, truly in him the love of God hath been perfected; in this we know that in him we are. ⁶He who is saying in him he doth remain, ought according as he walked also himself so to walk.

⁷Brethren, a new command I write not to you, but an old command, that ye had from the beginning—the old command is the word that ye heard from the beginning; ⁸again, a new command I write to you, which thing is true in him and in you, because the darkness doth pass away, and the true light doth now shine; ⁹he who is saying, in the light he is, and his brother is hating, in the darkness he is till now; ¹⁰he who is loving his brother, in the light he doth remain, and a stumbling-block in him there is not; ¹¹and he who is hating his brother, in the darkness he is, and in the darkness he doth walk, and he hath not known whither he doth go, because the darkness did blind his eyes.

¹²I write to you, little children, because the sins have been forgiven you through his name; ¹³I write to you, fathers, because ye have known him who is from the beginning; I write to you, young men, because ye have overcome the evil. I write to you, little youths, because ye have known the Father: ¹⁴I did write to you, fathers, because ye have known him who is from the beginning; I did write to you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God in you doth remain, and ye have overcome the evil. ¹⁵Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him, ¹⁶because all that is in the world—the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life—is not of the Father, but of the world, ¹⁷and the world doth pass away, and the desire of it, and he who is doing the will of God, he doth remain—to the age.