⁵And this is the message that we have heard from Him, and announce to you, that God is light, and darkness in Him is not at all; ⁶if we may say—‘we have fellowship with Him,’ and in the darkness may walk—we lie, and do not the truth; ⁷and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light—we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin.

⁸If we may say—‘we have not sin,’ ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us; ⁹if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness; ¹⁰if we may say—‘we have not sinned,’ a liar we make Him, and His word is not in us.

Chapter 2

¹My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one, ²and he—he is a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for 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.

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