My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
1 John 3:18 KJVBeloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
1 John 4:7 KJVWe know that we are of God, and the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one.
1 John 5:19 NKJV
- First Epistle of John (Wikipedia)
The First Epistle of John is the first of the Johannine epistles of the New Testament, and the fourth of the catholic epistles. There is no scholarly consensus as to the authorship of the Johannine works. The author of the First Epistle is termed John the Evangelist, who most modern scholars believe is not the same as John the Apostle. Most scholars believe the three Johannine epistles have the same author, but there is no consensus if this was also the author of the Gospel of John.