My little children, I write this to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

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

But he who hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.

If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who does right is born of him.

See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God! And so we are! The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

Little children, let no one deceive you. He who does right is righteous, just as he is righteous.

By this it may be seen who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not do right is not of God, nor he who does not love his brother.

We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love abides in death.

But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him?

and every spirit which does not confess Jesus is not of God. This is the spirit of the Antichrist, of which you have heard that it was coming, and now it is in the world already.

We are of God. Whoever knows God listens to us; he who is not of God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

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

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

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 given of his Son.

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

If anyone sees his brother commit a sin that does not lead to death, he will ask, and God will give him life for those whose sin is not leading to death. There is sin leading to death. I do not say that he should pray about that.

All wrongdoing is sin, and there is sin that does not lead to death.

We know that anyone born of God does not sin; but he who was born of God keeps him, and the evil one does not touch him.