Christ is our Advocate with the Father—We know God by obedience—Love not the world—Antichrists shall come in the last days.

 MY little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. ^aAnd^• if any man sin, we have an ^badvocate^• with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

 And he is the ^apropitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole ^bworld^•.

 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we ^akeep^• his commandments.

 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his ^acommandments^•, is a ^bliar, and the truth is not in him.

 But whoso ^akeepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are ^bin^• him.

 He that saith he ^aabideth^• in him ought himself also so to ^bwalk^•, even as he walked.

 ^aBrethren^•, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.

 Again, a new commandment I write unto you, ^awhich^• thing is true in him and in you: because the ^bdarkness is ^cpast^•, and the true ^dlight^• now shineth.

 He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.

 He that ^aloveth^• his ^bbrother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.

 But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and ^awalketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.

 I ^awrite unto you, little ^bchildren^•, because your sins are forgiven you ^cfor^• his ^dname^•’s sake.

 I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.

 I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.

 Love not the ^aworld, neither the things that are in the ^bworld. If any man love the world, the ^clove^• of the Father is not in him.

 For all that is in the world, the ^alust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the ^bpride^• of life, is not of the Father, but is of the ^cworld^•.

 And the ^aworld^{• b}passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the ^cwill of God ^dabideth^• for ever.

 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that ^aantichrist shall come, even now are there many ^bantichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.

 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

 But ye have an ^aunction^• from the ^bHoly One, and ye know all things.

 I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

 Who is a ^aliar^• but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is ^bantichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.

 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: [but] he that ^aacknowledgeth^• the Son hath the Father also.

 Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the ^abeginning^• shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.

 And this is the ^apromise^• that he hath promised us, even ^beternal^• life.

 These things have I written unto you concerning them that ^aseduce^• you.

 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man ^ateach^• you: but as the same ^banointing ^cteacheth^• you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.

 And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

 If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth ^arighteousness is ^bborn of him.