1See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are; the reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.
2Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when He appears we will be like Him, because we will see Him as He is.
3And everyone who thus elpis(hope)s in Him purifies himself as He is pure.
4Everyone who practices sin also practices anomia(Torah-lessness); sin is anomia(Torah-lessness).
5You know that He appeared to take away sins, and in Him there is no sin.
6No one who abides in Him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen Him or known Him.
7Little children, let no one deceive you; the one who practices dikaiosyne(righteousness) is righteous, as He is righteous.
8Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the diabolos(devil, accuser, slanderer), because the diabolos(devil, accuser, slanderer) has been sinning from the beginning; the Son of God appeared for this purpose — to destroy the works of the diabolos(devil, accuser, slanderer).
9No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, because God's seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God.
10By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the diabolos(devil, accuser, slanderer): whoever does not practice dikaiosyne(righteousness) is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.
11For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning — that we should love one another.
12Not like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother; and why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous.
13Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you.
14We know that we have passed out of death into zoe(life), because we love the brothers; whoever does not love abides in death.
15Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal zoe(life) abiding in him.
16By this we know love — that He laid down His psyche(soul) for us, and we ought to lay down our psychai(souls) for the brothers.
17But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his splagchna(innermost-compassion) against him, how does the love of God abide in him?
18Little children, let us not love in logos(word) or talk but in deed and aletheia(truth).
19By this we shall know that we are of the aletheia(truth) and reassure our kardiai(hearts, soul-domains) before Him
20whenever our kardia(heart, soul-domain) condemns us, because God is greater than our kardia(heart, soul-domain) and He knows everything.
21Beloved, if our kardia(heart, soul-domain) does not condemn us, we have parresia(confidence, boldness) before God;
22and whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do what pleases Him.
23And this is His commandment: that we believe in the name of His Son Yeshua(Jesus) Messiah(Christ) and love one another, just as He has commanded us.
24Whoever keeps His commandments abides in God, and God in him; and by this we know that He abides in us — by the pneuma(spirit) that He has given us.