If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and are walking in the darkness, we lie, and do not the truth;

If we say, "We have no sin," we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

If we say, "We have not sinned," we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.

My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin. And, if any one sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the Righteous.

And He is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

He who says, "I have known Him," and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;

But he that hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and knows not where he is going, because the darkness blinded his eyes.

Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him;

because all that is in the world??he desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the vain-glory of life??s not of the Father, but is of the world.

They went out from among us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out, that they might be made manifest, that they are not all of us.

I did not write to you because ye know not the truth; but because ye know it, and because no falsehood is of the truth.

Every one who denies the Son has not the Father either; he who confesses the Son has the Father also.

And the Anointing which ye received from Him abideth in you, and ye have no need that anyone teach you; but as His Anointing teacheth you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as He taught you, ye abide in Him.

And now, little children, abide in Him; that, if He shall be manifested, we may have confidence, and not be put away from Him with shame at His coming.

Behold what manner of love the Father hath given to us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world knows us not, because it knew Him not.

Every one that is abiding in Him sins not; whosoever sins has not seen Him nor known Him.

Whosoever has been begotten of God sins not; because His seed abides in him, and he cannot sin because he has been begotten of God.

In this are manifest the children of God and the children of the Devil: every one that does not righteousness is not of God, neither he that does not love his brother;

not as Cain who was of the evil one, and slew his brother. And wherefore did he slay him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

Marvel not, brethren, if the world hates you.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He that loves not abides in death.

But whosoever possesses the goods of the world, and beholds his brother having need, and shuts up his compassion from him, how does the love of God abide in him?

Little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue, but in deed and in truth.

Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have confidence toward God;

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone forth into the world.

and every spirit that confesses not Jesus is not of God; and this is the spirit of the Anti-Christ, of which ye have heard that it is coming, and now it is in the world already.

We are of God; he that knows God hears us; he that is not of God hears us not: from this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

He that loves not never knew God; because God is love.

Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son, to be a propitiation for our sins.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment; and he who fears is not made perfect in love.

If anyone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he that loves not his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God Whom he has not seen.

For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome;

This is He Who came through water and blood, Jesus Christ; not in the water only, but in the water and in the blood.

He that believes on the Son of God has the witness in himself; he that believes not God has made Him a liar; because he has not believed in the testimony that God testified concerning His Son.

He that has the Son has the life; he that has not the Son of God has not the life.

If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those that sin not to death. There is a sin to death: I do not say that he shall make request concerning this.

All unrighteousness is sin; and there is a sin not to death.

We know that every one who has been begotten of God sins not; but he who was begotten of God keeps himself, and the evil one touches him not.