This keepsake hard cover edition of The First Epistle of JOHN was taken from the King James translation of the Bible. The King James Translation is a masterwork of style, and the most important book in the English language, it has been the driving force in shaping the English-speaking world for hundreds of years. John wrote this epistle so that the joy of Christianity would be full and that Christians would not practice sin. He further; says that we should love one another; and that those who believe in the name of the Son of God may know that they have eternal life. FIRST JOHN is one of the shortest books in the bible and is sold at or near the publisher's cost and offered up for the collector who wished to have an unbroken set of this keepsake editions.