1 John 1:3

1:3 What we have seen and heard we announce ¹  to you too, so that ²  you may have fellowship ³  with us (and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ).

1 John 2:7

2:7 Dear friends, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning. ⁴  The old commandment is the word that you have already ⁵  heard.

1 John 2:13

2:13 I am writing to you, fathers, that ⁶  you have known him who has been from the beginning. I am writing to you, young people, that ⁷  you have conquered the evil one. ⁸ 

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¹ tn Or “proclaim.”

² tn The ἵνα (Jina) here indicates purpose.

³ tn Or “communion”; or “association” (a reality shared in common, so in this case, “genuine association”). This term also occurs in vv. 6, 7.

⁴ sn See John 13:34-35.

⁵ tn “Already” is not is the Greek text, but is supplied for clarity.

⁶ tn See the note on “that” in v. 12.

⁷ tn See the note on “that” in v. 12.

⁸ sn The phrase the evil one is used in John 17:15 as a reference to Satan. Satan is also the referent here and in the four other occurrences in 1 John (2:14; 3:12; 5:18, 19).