And this is the message that we have heard from Him, and announce to you, that God is light, and darkness in Him is not at all;

and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light -- we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;

if we may say -- 'we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us;

again, a new command I write to you, which thing is true in him and in you, because the darkness doth pass away, and the true light doth now shine;

he who is saying, in the light he is, and his brother is hating, in the darkness he is till now;

he who is loving his brother, in the light he doth remain, and a stumbling-block in him there is not;

Ye, then, that which ye heard from the beginning, in you let it remain; if in you may remain that which from the beginning ye did hear, ye also in the Son and in the Father shall remain,

Little children, let no one lead you astray; he who is doing the righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous,