(The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. The one who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given about His Son.)

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

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know the true One. We are in the true One-- that is, in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.

The one who keeps His commands remains in Him, and He in him. And the way we know that He remains in us is from the Spirit He has given us.

You are from God, little children, and you have conquered them, because the One who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

We are from God. Anyone who knows God listens to us; anyone who is not from God does not listen to us. From this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deception.

The Spirit Himself testifies together with our spirit that we are God's children,

For our boast is this: the testimony of our conscience that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, with God-given sincerity and purity, not by fleshly wisdom but by God's grace.

For we know that if our earthly house, a tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

and that is why I suffer these things. But I am not ashamed, because I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to guard what has been entrusted to me until that day.

You are from God, little children, and you have conquered them, because the One who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

They are from the world. Therefore what they say is from the world, and the world listens to them.

"If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me before it hated you.

If you were of the world, the world would love [you as] its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you.

And because they did not think it worthwhile to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them over to a worthless mind to do what is morally wrong.

slanderers, God-haters, arrogant, proud, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,

Although they know full well God's just sentence-- that those who practice such things deserve to die-- they not only do them, but even applaud others who practice them.

What then? Are we any better? Not at all! For we have previously charged that both Jews and Gentiles are all under sin,

there is no one who understands, there is no one who seeks God.

Their throat is an open grave; they deceive with their tongues. Vipers' venom is under their lips.

Their feet are swift to shed blood;

and the path of peace they have not known.

who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, captives of various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.

Adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the world's friend becomes God's enemy.

We know that everyone who has been born of God does not sin, but the One who is born of God keeps him, and the evil one does not touch him.

Now is the judgment of this world. Now the ruler of this world will be cast out.

I will not talk with you much longer, because the ruler of the world is coming. He has no power over Me.

and about judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.

Regarding them: the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

in which you previously walked according to this worldly age, according to the ruler of the atmospheric domain, the spirit now working in the disobedient.

So the great dragon was thrown out-- the ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, the one who deceives the whole world. He was thrown to earth, and his angels with him.

And he was permitted to wage war against the saints and to conquer them. He was also given authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation.

All those who live on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name was not written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slaughtered.

He threw him into the abyss, closed it, and put a seal on it so that he would no longer deceive the nations until the 1,000 years were completed. After that, he must be released for a short time.

When the 1,000 years are completed, Satan will be released from his prison

and will go out to deceive the nations at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle. Their number is like the sand of the sea.