THAT which was from the beginning, whom we heard, whom our eyes saw, whom we beheld, and whom our hands handled, concerning the Word of Life;
2 (And the Life was manifested, and we saw, and bear witness, and tell you that Life Eternal, which was unto the Father, and was manifested to us,)
3 That which we saw and heard we tell you, and that you all have fellowship with us: and now together we have fellowship with the Father and with his Son YAHWASUA the anointed.
4 And these things I write you that your joy may be full.
5 And this is the message which we heard from him, and tell you, that YAHWAH is Light, and in him is no darkness, none.
6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do no Truth:
7 But if we walk in the Light, as he was in the Light, we have fellowship with each other, and the blood of his Son YAHWASUA the anointed cleanses us from all sin.
8 If we say that we have no sins, we deceive ourselves, and the Truth is not in us.
9 If we acknowledge these our sins, faithful and righteous is he that forgives these our sins, and cleanses us from all unrighteousness.
10 If we say that we have no sins, we make him a liar, and his Word is not in us.
MY little children, these things I write you that you all sin not. And if any one sins, we have the Dweller unto the Father, the anointed righteous YAHWASUA:
2 And he is the mercy offering concerning our sins: and not concerning ours only, but also concerning all the World.
3 And in this we understand that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
4 He that says, I know him, and he keeps not his commandments, is a liar, and the Truth is not in him.
5 But whoever keeps whatsoever is his Word, truly in him is being perfected the perfect love of YAHWAH: this we know because we are in him.
6 He that says, I dwell in him, even so himself ought also to walk even as he walked.
7 Brethren, I write you no new commandment, but an old commandment which you all had from the beginning. The old commandment is the Word which you all have heard from the beginning.
8 Again I write you a new commandment which is truly in him and in you because the darkness has passed, and now the True Light has appeared.
9 He that says he is in the Light, and hates his brother; he is still now in the darkness.
10 He that loves his brother dwells in the Light, and in him is no stumbling.
11 But he that hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and knows not where he goes because darkness has blinded his eyes.
12 Little children I write you because your sins are forgiven through his name.
13 Fathers I write you because you all have known from the beginning. Young men I write you because you all have overcome the Evil. Children I write you because you all have known the Father.
14 Fathers I write you because you all have known from the beginning. Young men I write you because you all are strong, and the Word of YAHWAH dwells in you, and you all have overcome the Evil.
15 Love not the World, neither the things in the World. If any love the World, the love of the Father is not in them.
16 Because everything in the World, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, they are not out of the Father, but are out of the World.
17 And the World passes away, and the lust of it: but he doing the will of YAHWAH dwells into the Ages.
18 Children, it is the latter hours: and as you all have heard that the anointed’s opposition [antichrist] shall come, and there are now many of the anointed’s opposition [antichrists]; whereby we know that it is the latter hours.
19 They went out from us, but they were not out of us; for if they had been out of us, they would dwell with us: but that was manifested because they all were not out of us.
20 But you all are the anointed from the sanctification, and know all things.
21 I have not written you because you know not the Truth, but because you know it, and that all lies are not out of the Truth.
22 Who are liars if not those that deny saying, YAHWASUA is not the anointed. These are the anointed’s opposition [antichrists]! They deny the Father and the Son.
23 All they denying the Son have neither the Father: he who declares the Son also has the Father.
24 Therefore what dwells in you is heard from the beginning. If that which you all heard from the beginning dwells in you, you all also dwell in the Son and in the Father.
25 And this is the promise that he promised us, Life Eternal.
26 These things I write you about those deceiving you.
27 And the anointing you all received from him which dwells in you, and you all have no need that any teach you: but as this same anointing teaches you about all things, and is Truth, and is no lie, and as it teaches you, you all dwell in him.
28 And now little children dwell in him; that when he appears, you will have boldness, and not be shamed from him in his presence.
29 If you all know that he is righteous, you all understand that all doing righteousness are brought forth out of him.
KNOW what manner of love the Father gives us, that we are called the children of YAHWAH: this World knows us not, because it knew him not.
2 Now beloved we are the children of YAHWAH, and what we shall be is not yet manifested: but we know that if we are manifested, we shall be like him; because we shall appear as he himself is.
3 And all they having this confidence upon him purify themselves, even as he is pure.
4 All they committing sin are also committing transgression of the law: so sin is transgression of the law.
5 And you all know that he was manifested in order to take up our sins; and no sin is in him.
6 All dwelling in him sin not: all sinning have not seen him, neither have they known him.
7 Little children, nothing should deceive you: they committing righteousness are righteous, even as he is righteous.
8 They committing sin are out of the devil; for the devil sinned from the beginning. Into this the SON of YAHWAH was manifested so that he could destroy the works of the devil.
9 All begotten out of YAHWAH do not sin; for HIS SEED dwells in them: and they cannot sin, for they were begotten out of YAHWAH.
10 In this are the children of YAHWAH made manifest, and the children of the devil: all not doing righteousness are not out of YAHWAH, also they love not their brother.
11 For this is the message that you all heard from the beginning, that we love one another.
12 Not as Cain, who was out of the EVIL ONE, and killed his brother. And what caused him to kill? Because his works were evil, but his brother’s were righteous.
13 My brethren marvel not if the World hates you.
14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. Those dwelling in death love not the brethren.
15 All hating the brethren are murderers: and you all know that all murderers have not Life Eternal dwelling in them.
16 In this we know love because he laid his person over us: and we ought to lay our person over the brethren.
17 But that whosoever has this World’s goods, and sees his brother has needs, and shuts up his bowels from him, how dwells in him the love of YAHWAH?
18 My little children, love not in Word neither tongue; but in works and Truth.
19 And in this we know that we are out of the Truth, also our heart will have this confidence in his sight,
20 That if the heart condemns us, YAHWAH is greater than our heart, and knows all.
21 Beloved, if our heart condemns us not, we have boldness toward YAHWAH.
22 And if what we ask by the side of him we receive; that keeping his commandments we also do pleasing things before him.
23 And this is his commandment, That we believe the name of his Son, YAHWASUA, the anointed, and love one another, even as he gave us commandments.
24 And they keeping his commandments dwell in him, and he in them. And in this we know that he dwells in us out of the Spirit which he gave us.
BELOVED, believe not all spirits, but prove the spirits if they are out of YAHWAH, because many false prophets [pseudoprophetes] are gone out into the World.
2 In this know the Spirit of YAHWAH: all spirits confessing YAHWASUA the anointed has come in the flesh are out of YAHWAH:
3 And all spirits confessing not that YAHWASUA the anointed has come in the flesh are not out of YAHWAH: and these are the anointed’s opposition [antichrists], which you all have heard that they would come; and are now already in the World.
4 Little children, you all are out of YAHWAH, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the World.
5 They are out of the World: therefore they speak out of the World, and the World hears them.
6 We are out of YAHWAH: he that knows YAHWAH hears us; he that is not out of YAHWAH hears us not. In this we know the spirit of Truth, and the spirit of deception.
7 Beloved, love one another: for love is out of YAHWAH; and all that love are begotten out of YAHWAH, and they know YAHWAH.
8 He that loves not knows not YAHWAH; because YAHWAH is love.
9 In this is manifested that love of YAHWAH in us, for YAHWAH sent his Son of one seedline into the World, that through him we live.
10 In this is love, not that we loved YAHWAH, but that he loved us, and sent his Son the mercy offering concerning our sins.
11 Beloved, if YAHWAH so loved us, also we ought to love one another.
12 No one has seen YAHWAH at any time. If we love one another, YAHWAH dwells in us, and his love is perfected in us.
13 In this we know that we dwell in him, and he in us, because out of his Spirit were we given.
14 And we have seen and bear witness that the Father sent the Son, the DELIVERER of the World.
15 Whosoever declares that YAHWASUA is the Son of YAHWAH, YAHWAH dwells in him, and he in YAHWAH.
16 And we know and believe the love which YAHWAH has in us. YAHWAH is love; and they that dwell in love dwell in YAHWAH, and YAHWAH dwells in them.
17 In this, with love in us, we are perfected that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: that even as he is, this also we are in the World.
18 No fear is in this love; but this perfected love casts out the fear: because fear has correction, but he that has fearfulness is not made perfect in this love.
19 We love him, because he first loved us.
20 If any say that I love YAHWAH, and hates his brother, he is lying: for they that love not their brother whom they have seen, how can they love YAHWAH whom they have not seen?
21 And this commandment we have from him, that he who loves YAHWAH loves also his brother.
ALL believing that YAHWASUA the anointed is begotten out of YAHWAH: and all that love him that begat also love him that is begotten out of him.
2 In this we know that we love the children of YAHWAH when we love YAHWAH, and keep his commandments.
3 For this is the love of YAHWAH, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
4 All that are begotten out of YAHWAH conquer the World: and this our faith is the victory that conquers the World.
5 Who are they that conquer the World, but they who believe that YAHWASUA is the Son of YAHWAH?
6 This is he that came through water and blood, YAHWASUA the anointed; not only in water, but in water and blood. And it is the Spirit that bears witness, because the Spirit is the Truth.
7 For there are three that bear witness in heaven, the Father [YAHWAH], the Word [YAHWASUA], and the Sanctifying Spirit [SHAKANA]:
8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three are in one.
9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of YAHWAH is greater: for this is the witness of YAHWAH which he has witnessed concerning his Son.
10 He that believes into the Son of YAHWAH has the witness in himself: he that believes not YAHWAH has made him a liar; because he believes not into the witness which YAHWAH witnessed concerning his Son.
11 And this is the witness that YAHWAH has given us Life Eternal, and this Life is in his Son.
12 He that has the Son has Life; he that has not the Son of YAHWAH has not Life.
13 These things I have written you that believe into the name of the Son of YAHWAH; that you all may know that you all have Life Eternal, and that you all may believe into the name of the Son of YAHWAH, YAHWASUA.
14 And this is the boldness that we have unto him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us:
15 And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we ask by the side of him.
16 If any see his brother sin, sin not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him Life that sin not unto death. There is sin unto death: I say that he shall not pray concerning that.
17 All unrighteousness is sin: and there is sin not unto death.
18 We know that all begotten out of YAHWAH sin not; but they that are begotten out of YAHWAH keep themselves, and the EVIL ONE clings not to them.
19 We know that we are out of YAHWAH, and all the World lays in evil.
20 And we know that the Son of YAHWAH has come, and YAHWAH has given us minds that know him that is true, and we are in him who is true, and in his Son YAHWASUA the anointed. This is of the true YAHWAH, even Life Eternal.
21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
THE elder to the elect, lords and their children, whom I love in Truth; and not I only, but also all that have known the Truth;
2 Through the Truth which dwells in us, and shall be with us into the Ages.
3 Grace, mercy, peace, be with you all by the side of YAHWAH the Father, and by the side of the Lord YAHWASUA the anointed, the Son of the Father in Truth and love.
4 I rejoiced greatly finding that your children are out of them walking in Truth as according to commandments received by the side of the Father.
5 And now I beseech you, lords I write you not that which is a new commandment but that which was from the beginning, to love one another.
6 And this is love that we walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, as you all have heard from the beginning, That you all walk in it.
7 For many deceivers are entered into the World, who declare not that YAHWASUA the anointed is come in the flesh. These are deceivers and the anointed’s opposition [antichrists].
8 Yourselves see that nothing perishes which was worked, but receive a full reward.
9 All they transgressing and dwelling not in the doctrine of the anointed, have not YAHWAH. They dwelling in the doctrine of the anointed have both the Father and the Son.
10 If any come unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive them not into house, and speak not joyfully to them:
11 For he that speaks joyfully to them is partaker of their evil works.
12 Having much to write you, I will not through paper and ink: but I trust to come unto you, and speak mouth to mouth, that our joy may be full.
13 The children of your elect sister greet you. Amen.
THE elder to the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love in the Truth.
2 Beloved, I wish concerning all things that you may prosper and be healthy, even as your person prospers.
3 For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and bore witness of the Truth in you, even as you walk in the Truth.
4 Nothing has greater joy than to hear that my children walk in Truth.
5 Beloved, you do faithfully that work if into the brethren, and into the strangers;
6 Which have borne witness of your love before the ekklesia: whom if you bring forward on their journey after a godly manner, you shall do well:
7 For over the name they went out, taking nothing from the nations.
8 Therefore we ought to receive such ones that we might be fellow-workers of the Truth.
9 I wrote the ekklesia, but Diotrephes, who desires to have the preeminence himself, received us not.
10 Through this, if I come, I will remember his works which he does, foolishly speaking evil words against us: and not being content upon these things, neither does he himself receive the brethren, and he forbids them that would, and he casts out of the ekklesia.
11 Beloved, follow not evil, but good. They doing good are out of YAHWAH: but they doing evil see not YAHWAH.
12 All bearing good witness under Demetrius, and himself under the Truth: yes, we also bear witness; and you all know that our witness is true.
13 I have many things to write, but I will not with ink and pen write you:
14 But I trust I shall shortly see you, and we shall speak mouth to mouth. Peace to you. The friends salute you. Salute the friends according to name.