But if we live in the light, just as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from every sin.

whoever says, "I am always in union with him" must live just as he lived.

Dear friends, it is no new command that I am writing you, but an old one that you have had from the beginning. That old command is the same as the message you have heard.

Who is such a liar as the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is the real Antichrist??he man who disowns the Father and the Son.

You still retain in your hearts the anointing with the Spirit that you received from him, and you do not need to have anyone teach you. But just as that anointing of his teaches you about everything, and as it is true and no falsehood, keep in union with him just as it has taught you to do.

Dear friends, we are God's children now; it has not yet been disclosed what we are to be. We know that if he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

And everyone who possesses this hope in him tries to make himself as pure as he is.

Dear children, let no one mislead you; whoever acts uprightly is upright, just as he is upright.

and we obtain from him whatever we ask for, because we are obeying his commands and doing the things that please him.

His command is this??hat we are to believe in his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he has commanded us to do.

They are children of the world; that is why they speak as the world directs, and the world listens to them.

The love consists not in our having loved God, but in his loving us and sending his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Love attains perfection in us, when we have perfect confidence about the Day of Judgment, because here in this world we are living as he lives.

And we have confidence in him, that if we ask him for anything that is in accordance with his will, he will listen to us.

And if we know that he listens to whatever we ask him for, we know that the requests we have made of him are granted.

If anyone sees his brother committing any sin except a deadly one, he will ask and obtain life for him??rovided the sin is not a deadly one. There is such a thing as deadly sin; I do not say that a man should pray about that.