If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.

I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and because every lie is not of the truth.

And [as for] you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you do not have need that anyone teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all [things], and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you reside in him.

We have come to know love by this: that {he} laid down his life on behalf of us, and we ought to lay down our lives on behalf of the brothers.