If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

My little children, I write these things to you, that you may not sin: and yet, if any one sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

And he is the expiation for our sins: not for ours only, but for the sins of the whole world.

He that says, I know him, and keeps not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

He that hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness; and he knows not whither he goes, because darkness has blinded his eyes.

Love not the world, nor the things that are in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

For all that is in the world, the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

They went out from us, but they were not of us: for, if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

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

"Whoever denies the Son, has not the Father: he that con fesses the Son, has the Father also.

And the anointing which you have received from him abides in you; and you have no need that any one should teach you: but, as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true and is no lie, even as it has taught you, abide in it.

And now, little children, abide in him, that when he appears, we may have confidence, and may not be made ashamed by him at his coming.

Behold, how great love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called the children of God! For this reason, the world knows us not, because it knew him not.

Beloved, now are we the children of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

Whoever abides in him, sins not. Whoever sins, has neither seen him nor known him.

Whoever has been begotten of God does not work sin; because his seed remains in him: and he can not sin, because he has been begotten of God.

By this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil. Whoever does not work righteousness is not of God; neither is he that loves not his brother.

Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one, and slew his brother: and for what reason did he slay him? because his own works were evil, and his brother s, righteous.

Wonder not, my brethren, if the world hates you.

We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren: he that loves not his brother, abides in death.

Whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother have need, and shuts his heart against him, how dwells the love of God in him?

My little children, let us not love in word, nor in tongue, but in deed, and in truth.

Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have confidence to ward God,

Beloved, believe not every spirit; but prove the spirits, whether they are from God: for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

and whatever spirit confesses not that Jesus Christ came in the flesh, is not from God: and this is the spirit of antichrist, of which you have heard that it comes, and is now already in the world.

We are of God: he that knows God, hears us: he that is not of God, does not hear us: by this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

He that loves not, does not know God; for God is love.

In this is love; not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has torment: he that fears is not made perfect in love.

If any man say, I love God, and yet hate his brother, he is a liar: for he that loves not his brother, whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments; and his commandments are not burdensome.

This is he that came by water and by blood, Jesus the Christ; not by water only, but by water and by blood: and it is the Spirit that testifies, because the Spirit is truth.

He that believes on the Son of God has the testimony in him self: he that believes not God, has made him a liar, because he has not believed the testimony which God has borne concerning his Son.

He that has the Son, has life: he that has not the Son of God, has not life.

If any one see his brother sinning a sin not to death, he shall ask, and he will give him life for those who sin not to death. There is a sin to death: I do not say concerning this, that he should ask.

All unrighteousness is sin; and there is a sin not to death.

We know that whoever has been begotten of God, does not sin: but he that is begotten of God, keeps himself, and the wicked one touches him not.