If we say that we have communion with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and practise not the truth:

I have not written to you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

But the unction which ye have received from him abideth in you; and ye need not that any person should instruct you. But as the same unction teacheth you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie; and as it hath taught you, abide in him.

Every one who committeth sin, committeth also a transgression of the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

By this we have known the love [of Christ], because for us he laid down his own life: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.