² The life appeared;^(A) we have seen it and testify to it,^(B) and we proclaim to you the eternal life,^(C) which was with the Father and has appeared to us.

⁸ The one who does what is sinful is of the devil,^(A) because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God^(B) appeared was to destroy the devil’s work.^(C)