If we make it our habit to confess our sins, in his faithful righteousness he forgives us for those sins and cleanses us from all unrighteousness.

It is he who is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world's.

On the other hand, I am writing to you a new commandment that is truly in him and in you. For the darkness is fading away, and the true light is already shining.

The person who loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no reason for him to stumble.

For everything that is in the world the desire for fleshly gratification, the desire for possessions, and worldly arrogance is not from the Father but is from the world.

They left us, but they were not part of us, for if they had been part of us, they would have stayed with us. Their leaving made it clear that none of them was really part of us.

See what kind of love the Father has given us: We are called God's children and that is what we are! For this reason the world does not recognize us, because it did not recognize him, either.

This is how we have come to know love: the Messiah gave his life for us. We, too, ought to give our lives for our brothers.

This is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

We have seen for ourselves and can testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.

We have come to know and rely on the love that God has for us. God is love, and the person who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

There is no fear where love exists. Rather, perfect love banishes fear, for fear involves punishment, and the person who lives in fear has not been perfected in love.