1 PBS Yakunine, nile nule leleka. Anara iba neleili, tata pikeli, uke Yesus keba, bamua. BSB BSB: My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate before the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.
2 PBS Ke nunene ketupi. Nule nenefaka fito tupa. BSB BSB: He Himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.
3 PBS Tatake nefuta, pikekeneru pa nela. BSB BSB: By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments.
4 PBS Teba teni, tata tefija, pa pikeke tilaka, keokefa bamua kemeka. BSB BSB: If anyone says, “I know Him,” but does not keep His commandments, he is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
5 PBS Piapa, ba haohao mepe, hohokike bamua. Pianya nelakukuki. BSB BSB: But if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him:
6 PBS Keba kelakuku tataki, Anara Yesus kiwo. Cano kili tata. BSB BSB: Whoever claims to abide in Him must walk as Jesus walked.
7 PBS nebalete epipati nili, pilopa nilika, pitoto piya nili. Pitoto peleto. BSB BSB: Beloved, I am not writing to you a new commandment, but an old one, which you have had from the beginning. This commandment is the message you have heard.
8 PBS Peapa pinati polile, pe bamua epake lupa peka fefe pite. BSB BSB: Then again, I am also writing to you a new commandment, which is true in Him and also in you. For the darkness is fading and the true light is already shining.
9 PBS Teba teni temeti fefe, peapa tebalente tenaji, uabe kemele lopa. BSB BSB: If anyone claims to be in the light but hates his brother, he is still in the darkness.
10 PBS Tebalente pipate kele kenele fefe pa neba hupala ketakuka. BSB BSB: Whoever loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no cause of stumbling in him.
11 PBS Peapa, nebanetu kenaki kenele lupa kekaile lupa. Keleka lupa lutoka. BSB BSB: But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness. He does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
12 PBS Japo nilikote e, heangke Batikekepa nule kejo. BSB BSB: I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven through His name.
13 PBS Ebahauhau japo nilikote ea keing efula. Japonili teale jafefe ehaju. Nilekote eangku tata. BSB BSB: I am writing to you, fathers, because you know Him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I have written to you, children, because you know the Father.
14 PBS Ebahauhau ni efelang. Ealeng enafe ewekoko pa jafefe ehaju. BSB BSB: I have written to you, fathers, because you know Him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.
15 PBS Vito jafefe eleleka. Anara baung vitong kelemotu tata efengke moka. BSB BSB: Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 PBS Jamotu vitoe kenjafe, jaluto panifo, keing tata pulika, keing vitong jape. BSB BSB: For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world.
17 PBS Vitowe letetetu, teba tata pikeketeri kemu batutu. Kebatifa ilalaka BSB BSB: The world is passing away, along with its desires; but whoever does the will of God remains forever.
18 PBS Eangke kwevito hupe; pa anara kebatifa tata neparake kwi. Kebatifa ketotoli uawe kebatifa kitotoli. Neru kewe vito pepape. BSB BSB: Children, it is the last hour; and just as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. This is how we know it is the last hour.
20 PBS Peapa, jahefe ewe, jalelepa ele. BSB BSB: You, however, have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.
21 PBS Japu nilikotei jahefeng ele, jabamua eing jahefeng moka. BSB BSB: I have not written to you because you lack knowledge of the truth, but because you have it, and because no lie comes from the truth.
23 PBS Ba uke kealalo Tata kefoka. Peapa, teba oketefi Tatara tefi. BSB BSB: Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father, but whoever confesses the Son has the Father as well.
24 PBS Jaele to pemomoi. Pemomo ne e, era emomo uke pareke. BSB BSB: As for you, let what you have heard from the beginning remain in you. If it does, you will also remain in the Son and in the Father.
25 PBS Pa, kelokote ne, batoto ba. BSB BSB: And this is the promise that He Himself made to us: eternal life.
26 PBS Jelelepa polile mote, teba newe hupalang tetake. BSB BSB: I have written these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you.
27 PBS Peapa, makele pemomoe, pa tebakaung ijatenarurungka. Peapa, jakenalu pamakele pa jaing jabamua, jakenalung jabamua, emetameme nokeke. BSB BSB: And as for you, the anointing you received from Him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But just as His true and genuine anointing teaches you about all things, so remain in Him as you have been taught.
28 PBS Eangku uwawe, emomo nokeke kenalulu, nekeke kefu baketotolu. BSB BSB: And now, little children, remain in Christ, so that when He appears, we may be confident and unashamed before Him at His coming.
29 PBS Anara elu keba bamua, elu teba jabamua telaru, teja neukekete. BSB BSB: If you know that He is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.
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