1 John 1:4; 1 John 1:5; 1 John 2:1; 1 John 2:3; 1 John 2:5; 1 John 2:22; 1 John 2:25; 1 John 2:26; 1 John 3:1; 1 John 3:3; 1 John 3:8; 1 John 3:10; 1 John 3:11; 1 John 3:16; 1 John 3:19; 1 John 3:23; 1 John 3:24; 1 John 4:2; 1 John 4:3; 1 John 4:5; 1 John 4:6; 1 John 4:9; 1 John 4:10; 1 John 4:13; 1 John 4:17; 1 John 4:21; 1 John 5:2; 1 John 5:3; 1 John 5:4; 1 John 5:6; 1 John 5:9; 1 John 5:11; 1 John 5:13; 1 John 5:14; 1 John 5:20

1 John 1:4

4 We write this to make our joy complete.

1 John 1:5

5 This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.

1 John 2:1

1 My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.

1 John 2:3

3 We know that we have come to know him if we keep his commands.

1 John 2:5

5 But if anyone obeys his word, love for God is truly made complete in them. This is how we know we are in him:

1 John 2:22

22 Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist—denying the Father and the Son.

1 John 2:25

25 And this is what he promised us—eternal life.

1 John 2:26

26 I am writing these things to you about those who are trying to lead you astray.

1 John 3:1

1 See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

1 John 3:3

3 All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.

1 John 3:8

8 The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work.

1 John 3:10

10 This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister.

1 John 3:11

11 For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another.

1 John 3:16

16 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.

1 John 3:19

19 This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence:

1 John 3:23

23 And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.

1 John 3:24

24 The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.

1 John 4:2

2 This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,

1 John 4:3

3 but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.

1 John 4:5

5 They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them.

1 John 4:6

6 We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit of truth and the spirit of falsehood.

1 John 4:9

9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

1 John 4:10

10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

1 John 4:13

13 This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit.

1 John 4:17

17 This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus.

1 John 4:21

21 And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.

1 John 5:2

2 This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands.

1 John 5:3

3 In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not burdensome,

1 John 5:4

4 for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.

1 John 5:6

6 This is the one who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

1 John 5:9

9 We accept human testimony, but God’s testimony is greater because it is the testimony of God, which he has given about his Son.

1 John 5:11

11 And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

1 John 5:13

13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.

1 John 5:14

14 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

1 John 5:20

20 We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true. And we are in him who is true by being in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.