Letters to the Churches

because three are who are testifying in the heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these--the three--are one;

and three are who are testifying in the earth , the Spirit, and the water, and the blood, and the three are into the one.

If the testimony of men we receive, the testimony of God is greater, because this is the testimony of God that He hath testified concerning His Son.

He who is believing in the Son of God, hath the testimony in himself; he who is not believing God, a liar hath made Him, because he hath not believed in the testimony that God hath testified concerning His Son;

and this is the testimony, that life age-during did God give to us, and this--the life--is in His Son;

he who is having the Son, hath the life; he who is not having the Son of God--the life he hath not.

These things I did write to you who are believing in the name of the Son of God, that ye may know that life ye have age-during, and that ye may believe in the name of the Son of God.

And this is the boldness that we have toward Him, that if anything we may ask according to his will, He doth hear us,

and if we have known that He doth hear us, whatever we may ask, we have known that we have the requests that we have requested from Him.

If any one may see his brother sinning a sin not unto death, he shall ask, and He shall give to him life to those sinning not unto death; there is sin to death, not concerning it do I speak that he may beseech;

all unrighteousness is sin, and there is sin not unto death.

We have known that every one who hath been begotten of God doth not sin, but he who was begotten of God doth keep himself, and the evil one doth not touch him;

we have known that of God we are, and the whole world in the evil doth lie;

and we have known that the Son of God is come, and hath given us a mind, that we may know Him who is true, and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ; this one is the true God and the life age-during!

Little children, guard yourselves from the idols! Amen.

The Elder to the choice Kyria, and to her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those having known the truth,

because of the truth that is remaining in us, and with us shall be to the age,

there shall be with you grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

I rejoiced exceedingly that I have found of thy children walking in truth, even as a command we did receive from the Father;

and now I beseech thee, Kyria, not as writing to thee a new command, but which we had from the beginning, that we may love one another,

and this is the love, that we may walk according to His commands; this is the command, even as ye did hear from the beginning, that in it ye may walk,

because many leading astray did enter into the world, who are not confessing Jesus Christ coming in flesh; this one is he who is leading astray, and the antichrist.

See to yourselves that ye may not lose the things that we wrought, but a full reward may receive;

every one who is transgressing, and is not remaining in the teaching of the Christ, hath not God; he who is remaining in the teaching of the Christ, this one hath both the Father and the Son;

if any one doth come unto you, and this teaching doth not bear, receive him not into the house, and say not to him, `Hail!'