1Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ has received the new Life from God; and every one who loves him who gave that Life loves him who has received it. 2By this we know that we love God's Children--when we love God and carry out his commands. 3For to love God is to lay his commands to heart; and his commands are not burdensome, 4because all that has received the new Life from God conquers the world. And this is the power that has conquered the world--our faith! 5Who is he that conquers the world but the man who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?¶ 6He it is whose Coming was attested by means of Water and Blood-- Jesus Christ himself; not by Water only, but by Water and by Blood. And there is the Spirit also to bear testimony, and the Spirit is Truth itself. 7It is a three-fold testimony-- 8that of the Spirit, the Water, and the Blood--and these three are at one. 9We accept the testimony of men, but God's testimony is still stronger; and there is the testimony of God--the fact that he has already borne testimony about his Son.¶ 10He who believes in the Son of God has that testimony within him. He who does not believe God has made God a liar, by refusing to believe in that testimony which he has borne about his Son. 11And that testimony is that God gave us Immortal Life, and that this Life is in his Son. 12He who finds the Son finds Life; he who does not find the Son of God does not find Life. 13I write this to you, that you may realize that you have found Immortal Life--you who believe in the Name of the Son of God.¶ 14And this is the confidence with which we approach him, that whenever we ask anything that is in accordance with his will, he listens to us. 15And if we realize that he listens to us--whatever we ask--we realize that we have what we have asked from him. 16If any one sees his Brother committing some sin that is not a deadly sin, he will ask, and so be the means of giving Life to him--to any whose sin is not deadly. There is such a thing as deadly sin; about that I do not say that a man should pray. 17Every wrong action is sin, and there is sin that is not deadly.¶ 18We know that no one who has received the new Life from God lives in sin. No, he who has received the new Life from God keeps the thought of God in his heart, and then the Evil One does not touch him. 19We realize that we come from God, while all the world is under the influence of the Evil One. 20We realize, too, that the Son of God has come among us, and has given us the discernment to know the True God; and we are in union with the True God by our union with his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the True God and he is Immortal Life. 21My Children, guard yourselves against false ideas of God.¶