¹Vidzte, jakú lásku nám dal Otec - aby sme sa volali deťmi Božími, a sme nimi! Preto nás svet nezná, pretože jeho nepoznal.

¹See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;

²Milovaní, teraz sme deťmi Božími, a ešte sa neukázalo, čo budeme. Ale vieme, že keď sa ukáže, budeme jemu podobní, lebo ho budeme vidieť tak, ako je.

²beloved, now, children of God are we, and it was not yet manifested what we shall be, and we have known that if he may be manifested, like him we shall be, because we shall see him as he is;

³A každý, kto má túto nádej na neho, očisťuje sa, tak ako je aj on čistý.

³and every one who is having this hope on him, doth purify himself, even as he is pure.

⁴Každý, kto robí hriech, robí aj proti zákonu, a hriech je prestúpením zákona.

⁴Every one who is doing the sin, the lawlessness also he doth do, and the sin is the lawlessness,

⁵A viete, že sa on ukázal nato, aby sňal naše hriechy, a hriechu v ňom niet.

⁵and ye have known that he was manifested that our sins he may take away, and sin is not in him;

⁶Nikto, kto zostáva v ňom, nehreší, a nikto, kto hreší, ho nevidel ani ho nepoznal.

⁶every one who is remaining in him doth not sin; every one who is sinning, hath not seen him, nor known him.

⁷Dieťatká, nech vás nikto nezvodí! Ten, kto činí spravedlivosť, je spravedlivý, tak ako je on spravedlivý.

⁷Little children, let no one lead you astray; he who is doing the righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous,

⁸Kto robí hriech, je z diabla, lebo diabol hreší od počiatku. Nato sa ukázal Syn Boží, aby zkazil diela diablove.

⁸he who is doing the sin, of the devil he is, because from the beginning the devil doth sin; for this was the Son of God manifested, that he may break up the works of the devil;

⁹Nikto, kto sa narodil z Boha, nerobí hriechu, lebo jeho semä zostáva v ňom, ba ani nemôže hrešiť, lebo sa narodil z Boha.

⁹every one who hath been begotten of God, sin he doth not, because his seed in him doth remain, and he is not able to sin, because of God he hath been begotten.

¹⁰Po tom poznať deti Božie a deti diablove. Nikto, kto nečiní spravedlivosť, nie je z Boha, a ten, kto nemiluje svojho brata.

¹⁰In this manifest are the children of God, and the children of the devil; every one who is not doing righteousness, is not of God, and he who is not loving his brother,

¹¹Lebo to je tá zvesť, ktorú ste počuli od počiatku, aby sme milovali jeden druhého.

¹¹because this is the message that ye did hear from the beginning, that we may love one another,

¹²Nie tak, ako čo Kain bol z toho zlého a zabil svojho brata. A prečože ho zabil? Preto, že jeho skutky boly zlé a jeho bratove spravedlivé.

¹²not as Cain — of the evil one he was, and he did slay his brother, and wherefore did he slay him? because his works were evil, and those of his brother righteous.

¹³Nedivte sa, moji bratia, ak vás svet nenávidí.

¹³Do not wonder, my brethren, if the world doth hate you;

¹⁴My vieme, že sme prešli zo smrti do života, lebo milujeme bratov. Ten, kto nemiluje brata, zostáva v smrti.

¹⁴we — we have known that we have passed out of the death to the life, because we love the brethren; he who is not loving the brother doth remain in the death.

¹⁵Každý, kto nenávidí svojho brata, je vrahom, a viete, že niktorý vrah nemá večného života, zostávajúceho v sebe.

¹⁵Every one who is hating his brother — a man-killer he is, and ye have known that no man-killer hath life age-during in him remaining,

¹⁶Po tom sme poznali lásku Božiu, že on položil za nás svoju dušu. Aj my sme povinní klásť duše za bratov.

¹⁶in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down;

¹⁷A kto by mal majetok tohoto sveta a videl by svojho brata, že má nedostatok, a zavrel by pred ním svoje srdce, jako potom zostáva v ňom láska Božia?

¹⁷and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him — how doth the love of God remain in him?

¹⁸Moje dieťatká, nemilujme slovom ani jazykom, ale skutkom a pravdou.

¹⁸My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

¹⁹A po tom známe, že sme z pravdy a upokojíme pred ním svoje srdcia,

¹⁹and in this we know that of the truth we are, and before Him we shall assure our hearts,

²⁰že keď nás obviňuje naše srdce, že Bôh je väčší, ako je naše srdce, a vie všetko.

²⁰because if our heart may condemn — because greater is God than our heart, and He doth know all things.

²¹Milovaní, keď nás neobviňuje naše srdce, máme smelú dôveru k Bohu

²¹Beloved, if our heart may not condemn us, we have boldness toward God,

²²a všetko, čokoľvek prosíme, berieme od neho, lebo zachovávame jeho prikázania a činíme to, čo je ľúbe pred ním.

²²and whatever we may ask, we receive from Him, because His commands we keep, and the things pleasing before Him we do,

²³A toto je to jeho prikázanie: aby sme verili menu jeho Syna, Ježiša Krista, a milovali jedni druhých tak, ako nám dal prikázanie.

²³and this is His command, that we may believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and may love one another, even as He did give command to us,

²⁴A ten, kto zachováva jeho prikázania, zostáva v ňom a on tiež v ňom. A po tomto známe, že zostáva v nás - z Ducha, ktorého nám dal.

²⁴and he who is keeping His commands, in Him he doth remain, and He in him; and in this we know that He doth remain in us, from the Spirit that He gave us.