Christ Our Advocate

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous,

I am writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven on account of his name.

I write to you, children, because you know the Father. I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young people, because you are strong and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

Warning against Antichrists

Children, it is the last hour! As you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. From this we know that it is the last hour.

And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he is revealed we may have confidence and not be put to shame before him at his coming.

Children of God

If you perceive that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who does right has been born of him.

See what love the Father has given 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.

Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed. What we do know is this: when he is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him as he is.

Little children, let no one deceive you. Everyone who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous.

The children of God and the children of the devil are revealed in this way: all who do not do what is right are not from God, nor are those who do not love a brother or sister.

Little children, let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth.

Little children, you are from God and have conquered them, for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.

We know that we are God’s children and that the whole world lies under the power of the evil one.

Little children, keep yourselves from idols.