Iohannis I 3
1 Videte qualem charitatem dedit nobis Pater, ut filii Dei nominemur et simus. Propter hoc mundus non novit nos: quia non novit eum.
See how great a sincere love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God! Because the world didn’t know Him, it doesn’t know us.
2 Charissimi, nunc filii Dei sumus: et nondum apparuit quid erimus. Scimus quoniam cum apparuerit, similes ei erimus: quoniam videbimus eum sicuti est.
Beloved, now we are children of God, and it hasn’t yet appeared what we will be. We know that when He appears we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is.
3 Et omnis, qui habet hanc spem in eo, sanctificat se, sicut et ille sanctus est.
Everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.
4 Omnis, qui facit peccatum, et iniquitatem facit: et peccatum est iniquitas.
Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.
5 Et scitis quia ille apparuit ut peccata nostra tolleret: et peccatum in eo non est.
You know that He appeared to take away sins. There is no sin in Him.
6 Omnis, qui in eo manet, non peccat: et omnis, qui peccat, non vidit eum, nec cognovit eum.
No one who lives in Him sins. No one who sins has seen Him or knows Him.
7 Filioli, nemo vos seducat. Qui facit iustitiam, iustus est: sicut et ille iustus est.
Little children, don’t let anybody deceive you. The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous.
8 Qui facit peccatum, ex diabolo est: quoniam ab initio diabolus peccat. In hoc apparuit Filius Dei, ut dissolvat opera diaboli.
The one who practices sin is the Devil’s, because the Devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, that He might destroy the works of the Devil.
9 Omnis, qui natus est ex Deo, peccatum non facit: quoniam semen ipsius in eo manet, et non potest peccare, quoniam ex Deo natus est.
No one who is born of God practices sin, because God’s seed lives in him. He can’t continue to sin, because he is born of God.
10 In hoc manifesti sunt filii Dei, et filii diaboli. Omnis qui non est iustus, non est ex Deo, et qui non diligit fratrem suum:
By this the children of God and the children of the Devil are obvious: anyone who doesn’t practice righteousness is not God’s, and neither is anyone who doesn’t sincerely love his brother or sister.
11 quoniam haec est annunciatio, quam audistis ab initio, ut diligatis alterutrum.
For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should sincerely love one another.
12 Non sicut Cain, qui ex maligno erat, et occidit fratrem suum. Et propter quid occidit eum? Quoniam opera eius maligna erant: fratris autem eius, iusta.
Don’t be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because Cain’s deeds were evil, and his brother’s were righteous.
13 Nolite mirari fratres, si odit vos mundus.
Don’t be surprised, brothers and sisters, if the world hates you.
14 Nos scimus quoniam translati sumus de morte ad vitam, quoniam diligimus fratres. Qui non diligit, manet in morte:
We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we sincerely love our brothers and sisters. Whoever doesn’t sincerely love lives in death.
15 omnis, qui odit fratrem suum, homicida est. Et scitis quoniam omnis homicida non habet vitam aeternam in semetipso manentem. (aiōnios g166)
Whoever hates his brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life living in him. (aiōnios g166)
16 In hoc cognovimus charitatem Dei, quoniam ille animam suam pro nobis posuit: et nos debemus pro fratribus animas ponere.
By this we know God’s sincere love, because He laid down His life for us. So we also ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.
17 Qui habuerit substantiam huius mundi, et viderit fratrem suum necessitatem habere, et clauserit viscera sua ab eo: quomodo charitas Dei manet in eo?
If someone has this world’s goods, and sees a brother in need, and closes up his heart of compassion from him, how does God’s sincere love live in him?
18 Filioli mei, non diligamus verbo, neque lingua, sed opere et veritate.
My little children, let’s not sincerely love just in words or in language, but in deed and in truth.
19 in hoc cognoscimus quoniam ex veritate sumus: et in conspectu eius suadebimus corda nostra.
This is how we will know that we belong to the truth, and how we will assure our hearts before Him
20 Quoniam si reprehenderit nos cor nostrum: maior est Deus corde nostro, et novit omnia.
whenever our hearts condemn us; for God is greater than our hearts, and He knows all things.
21 Charissimi, si cor nostrum non reprehenderit nos, fiduciam habemus ad Deum:
Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have confidence before God;
22 et quidquid petierimus, accipiemus ab eo: quoniam mandata eius custodimus, et ea, quae sunt placita coram eo, facimus.
and we receive from Him whatever we ask, because we keep His commandments and do the things that please Him.
23 Et hoc est mandatum eius: Ut credamus in nomine Filii eius Iesu Christi: et diligamus alterutrum, sicut dedit mandatum nobis.
This is His commandment, that we believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and that we sincerely love one another, just as He commanded us.
24 Et qui servat mandata eius, in illo manet, et ipse in eo: et in hoc scimus quoniam manet in nobis de Spiritu, quem dedit nobis.
Whoever keeps His commandments lives in Him, and He lives in that person. This is how we know that He lives in us: by the Spirit He has given us.
