1 Gio-an

1See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

2Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him just as he is.

3Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

4Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

5You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and no sin is in him.

6Whoever remains in him doesn’t sin. Whoever sins hasn’t seen him and doesn’t know him.

7Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

8He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed: that he might destroy the works of the devil.

9Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him, and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.

10In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother.

11For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another—

12unlike Cain, who was of the evil one and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

13Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.

14We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.

15Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.

16By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

17But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?

18My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

19And by this we know that we are of the truth and persuade our hearts before him,

20because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

21Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness towards God;

22so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

23This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

24He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

1là vì thế gian đã không biết Người.

2vì Người thế nào, chúng ta sẽ thấy Người như vậy.

3như Người là Đấng thanh sạch.

4vì tội lỗi chống lại luật Thiên Chúa.

5để xoá bỏ tội lỗi, và nơi Người không có tội lỗi.

6thì đã không thấy Người, và cũng chẳng biết Người.

7như Đức Giê-su là Đấng Công Chính.

8là để phá huỷ công việc của ma quỷ.

9và người ấy không thể phạm tội, vì đã được Thiên Chúa sinh ra.

10ai không yêu thương anh em mình, thì cũng vậy.

11chúng ta hãy yêu thương nhau ;

12còn các việc em nó làm thì công chính.

13nếu thế gian ghét anh em.

14Kẻ không yêu thương, thì ở lại trong sự chết.

15có sự sống đời đời ở lại trong nó.

16chúng ta cũng phải thí mạng vì anh em.

17ở lại trong người ấy được ?

18nhưng phải yêu thương cách chân thật và bằng việc làm.

19và chúng ta sẽ được an lòng trước mặt Thiên Chúa.

20và Người biết hết mọi sự.

21chúng ta được mạnh dạn đến cùng Thiên Chúa.

22và làm những gì đẹp ý Người.

23theo điều răn Người đã ban cho chúng ta.

24Thần Khí Người đã ban cho chúng ta.