If we say we have no sin [refusing to admit that we are sinners], we delude ourselves and the truth is not in us. [His word does not live in our hearts.]

My little children, I write these things to you so that ye may not sin. And if any man does sin, we have an advocate with the Father--righteous Jesus Christ.

He who says, I know him, and does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in this man.

But whoever continues to hate his brother is in darkness and is living in darkness, and he does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

And the world passes away, and the lust of it, but he who does the will of God abides into the age.

Every man who denies the Son, also does not have the Father.

As for you, let the teaching which you have received from the very beginning continue in your hearts. If that teaching does continue in your hearts, you also will continue to be in union with the Son and with the Father.

If you have knowledge that he is upright, it is clear to you that everyone who does righteousness is his offspring.

Behold what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we may be called children of God. Because of this the world does not know you, because it did not know him.

beloved, we are now the sons of God, tho' it does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know, that when this change shall be, his immediate presence will give us a divine resemblance.

Every man doing sin also does lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.

Every man abiding in him does not sin. Every man who is sinning has not seen him, nor has known him.

My little children, let no man take you out of the true way: he who does righteousness is upright, even as he is upright;

Anyone who is a child of God does no sin, because he still has God's seed in him; he is not able to be a sinner, because God is his Father.

In this way it is clear who are the children of God and who are the children of the Evil One; anyone who does not do righteousness or who has no love for his brother, is not a child of God.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love our brothers. Whoever does not continue to love continues still in death.

Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that every murderer does not have eternal life residing in him.

But whoever has the world's living, and sees his brother having need, and closes his bowels from him, how does the love of God abide in him?

My loved ones, if our heart does not say that we have done wrong, we have no fear before him;

All who obey his commands keep in union with him, and he does with them; and this is how we know that he keeps in union with us??y the Spirit which he has given us.

and every spirit that does not confess Jesus Christ has come in flesh is not of God. And this is that of the antichrist, which ye have heard that it comes, and is now in the world already.

We are of God. He who knows God hears us. He who is not of God does not hear us. From this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

He who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

This is the way we know that we keep in union with him and he does with us??ecause he has given us some of his Spirit.

Fear does not exist in love; but love, when it is perfect, drives out fear. For fear has always torment, and he who has fear is not yet perfected in love.

If any man says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar. For he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

For this is [real evidence of] our love for God: [It is] obeying what He commands us to do. And obeying His commands does not cause us any grief [or, unpleasantness].

He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified about his Son.

He who has the Son has the life. He who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.

If anyone sees his brother committing a sin that does not lead to death, he will ask and God will grant him life; yea, He will grant it to any who do not commit a sin that leads to death. There is a sin that leads to death; I do not say that one should pray for that.

All wrongdoing is sin, and there is sin that does not lead to death [one can repent of it and be forgiven].

We know that every man who has been begotten from God does not sin, but he who was begotten from God keeps himself, and the evil does not touch him.