My little children, these things I write to you, that you may not sin. But if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the just.

²And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.

³And by this we know that we have known him, if we keep his commandments.

⁴He who saith that he knoweth him and keepeth not his commandments is a liar: and the truth is not in him.

⁵But he that keepeth his word, in him in very deed the charity of God is perfected. And by this we know that we are in him.

⁶He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also to walk even as he walked.

⁷Dearly beloved, I write not a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you have heard.

⁸Again a new commandment I write unto you: which thing is true both in him and in you, because the darkness is passed and the true light now shineth.

⁹He that saith he is in the light and hateth his brother is in darkness even until now.

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1 John 2:5: but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him…

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