⁵This is the message we heard from Christ and are reporting to you: God is light, and there isn’t any darkness in him. ⁶If we say, “We have a relationship with God” and yet live in the dark, we’re lying. We aren’t being truthful.

⁷But if we live in the light in the same way that God is in the light, we have a relationship with each other. And the blood of his Son Jesus cleanses us from every sin. ⁸If we say, “We aren’t sinful” we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us. ⁹God is faithful and reliable. If we confess our sins, he forgives them and cleanses us from everything we’ve done wrong. ¹⁰If we say, “We have never sinned,” we turn God into a liar and his Word is not in us.

2ND CHAPTER

¹My dear children, I’m writing this to you so that you will not sin. Yet, if anyone does sin, we have Jesus Christ, who has God’s full approval. He speaks on our behalf when we come into the presence of the Father. ²He is the payment for our sins, and not only for our sins, but also for the sins of the whole world.

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1 John 1:5: This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light and in him is no darkness at all.