My little children, I am writing you these things so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate ^vwith the Father—Jesus Christ the Righteous One. ²He Himself is the propitiation ^wfor our sins, and not only for ours, but also for those of the whole world. ^x

God’s Commands

³This is how we are sure ^ythat we have come to know Him: by keeping His commands. ^z⁴The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” yet doesn’t keep His commands, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. ⁵But whoever keeps His word, ^atruly in him the love of God is perfected. ^bThis is how we know we are in Him: ^c⁶The one who says he remains in Him ^dshould walk just as He walked.

⁷Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command ^ebut an old command that you have had from the beginning. The old command is the message ^fyou have heard. ⁸Yet I am writing you a new command, which is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away ^gand the true light ^his already shining. ⁱ

⁹The one who says he is in the light but hates his brother ^jis in the darkness until now.

Read in Logos

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…

Footnotes

b2:5 Or truly completed

Cross references

v2:1 Jn 14:26
w2:2 Rm 3:25; 2Co 5:21; Heb 2:17; 1Jn 4:10
x2:2 Mt 26:13; 28:19–20; Mk 14:9; Rm 1:8
y2:3 Jn 13:35; 1Jn 2:5; 3:19, 24; 4:2, 6, 13; 5:2
z2:3 Jn 14:15; 15:10
a2:5 Jn 14:23
c2:5 Jn 6:56; 14:20; 15:1–7; Rm 8:1; 2Co 5:17; Eph 2:10; Php 1:1
d2:6 Jn 15:4–7; 1Jn 2:24, 27–28; 3:6, 24; 4:13, 15–16
e2:7 Mk 7:8; Jn 13:34; 2Jn 5
f2:7 Lk 6:47; Jn 1:1
g2:8 Rm 13:12; 1Co 7:31; 1Jn 2:17
h2:8 Jn 1:9; 3:19–21; 8:12; 12:46
i2:8 Jn 1:5; 12:35–36; Rv 22:5
j2:9 1Jn 2:11; 3:15; 4:20