This is the word which came to us from him and which we give to you, that God is light and in him there is nothing dark.

My loved ones, I do not give you a new law, but an old law which you had from the first; this old law is the word which came to your ears.

They came forth from us, but they did not belong to us. If they had belonged to us they would certainly have remained with us, but they went out that they might be manifest that they all are not of us.

And you have knowledge that he came to take away sin: and in him there is no sin.

[But] the person who continues to live a sinful life belongs to the devil, because the devil has continued to sin since the beginning [See Gen. 3]. For this is the reason that the Son of God came [into the world]; it was to destroy the works [i.e., the influence of] the devil [in people's lives].

By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ came in the flesh, is from God:

and whatever spirit confesses not that Jesus Christ came in the flesh, is not from God: and this is the spirit of antichrist, of which you have heard that it comes, and is now already in the world.

This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and with the blood.