1My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate before the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.[ † ]Romans 8:341 Timothy 2:5Hebrews 7:25Hebrews 9:24 2He Himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.[ † ]Romans 3:25Hebrews 2:171 John 4:10John 1:29
3By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments. 4If anyone says, “I know Him,” but does not keep His commandments, he is a liar, and the truth is not in him.[ † ]Romans 3:4 5But if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him:[ † ]John 14:21-231 John 4:12 6Whoever claims to abide in Him must walk as Jesus walked.[ † ]John 15:4Matthew 11:29John 13:15John 15:101 Peter 2:21
7Beloved, I am not writing to you a new commandment, but an old one, which you have had from the beginning. This commandment is the message you have heard.[ † ]John 13:341 John 3:11-231 John 4:212 John 5 8Then again, I am also writing to you a new commandment, which is true in Him and also in you. For the darkness is fading and the true light is already shining.[ † ]John 13:34John 15:12Romans 13:12Ephesians 5:81 Thessalonians 5:4John 1:9John 8:12John 12:35
9If anyone claims to be in the light but hates his brother, he is still in the darkness.[ † ]1 Corinthians 13:21 John 3:14 10Whoever loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no cause of stumbling in him.[ † ]1 John 3:142 Peter 1:10 11But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness. He does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.[ † ]1 John 2:91 John 3:151 John 4:20John 12:351 John 1:6
12I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven through His name.[ † ]1 Corinthians 6:11
13I am writing to you, fathers, because you know Him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I have written to you, children, because you know the Father.[ † ]John 1:1Revelation 22:13Romans 8:15-17Galatians 4:6
14I have written to you, fathers, because you know Him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.[ † ]Ephesians 6:10
15Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.[ † ]Romans 12:2Galatians 1:4James 1:27Matthew 6:24James 4:4 16For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world.[ † ]Ecclesiastes 5:10-11 17The world is passing away, along with its desires; but whoever does the will of God remains forever.[ † ]1 Corinthians 7:311 Peter 1:24
18Children, it is the last hour; and just as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. This is how we know it is the last hour.[ † ]John 21:5Romans 13:111 Timothy 4:1Hebrews 1:21 Peter 4:72 Thessalonians 2:3Matthew 24:5-241 John 2:221 John 4:32 John 7 19They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of them belonged to us.[ † ]Deuteronomy 13:13Matthew 24:241 Corinthians 11:19
20You, however, have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.[ † ]2 Corinthians 1:21Hebrews 1:91 John 2:27Acts 3:14Proverbs 28:5John 16:131 Corinthians 2:15-16 21I have not written to you because you lack knowledge of the truth, but because you have it, and because no lie comes from the truth. 22Who is the liar, if it is not the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, who denies the Father and the Son.[ † ]2 John 71 John 4:3 23Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father, but whoever confesses the Son has the Father as well.[ † ]John 15:23John 5:231 John 4:151 John 5:12 John 9
24As for you, let what you have heard from the beginning remain in you. If it does, you will also remain in the Son and in the Father.[ † ]2 John 5, 6John 14:231 John 1:32 John 9 25And this is the promise that He Himself made to us: eternal life.[ † ]John 3:14-16John 6:40John 17:2-31 John 1:2
26I have written these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you. 27And as for you, the anointing you received from Him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But just as His true and genuine anointing teaches you about all things, so remain in Him as you have been taught.[ † ]John 14:16John 16:131 John 2:20Jeremiah 31:331 Corinthians 2:121 Thessalonians 4:9
28And now, little children, remain in Christ, so that when He appears, we may be confident and unashamed before Him at His coming.[ † ]Ephesians 3:121 John 3:211 John 4:171 John 5:14
29If you know that He is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.[ † ]Acts 22:14John 7:181 John 3:7-10