If we say, "We have partnership with Him," when we are passing our life in the darkness, we are lying and are not doing the truth.

If we say, "We have no sin," we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.

If we say, "We have not sinned," we are making him a liar, and his word is not in us.

I am writing to you, little children, because you sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.

And now continue to abide in him, my children, so that when he shall appear we may have cheerful confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

We are God's children now, beloved; what we shall be has never yet been made manifest. But we know that when he is manifested we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is.

We are not to be like Cain, who belonged to the Evil One, and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? It was because his own deeds were evil, and his brother's, righteous.

By this we learn to know love, because he laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

But whoever has this world's goods, and beholds his brother in need, and shuts up his heart against him, how can the love of God continue to abide in him?

Do not believe every spirit, beloved, but test the spirits to see whether they are of God; for many false prophets are gone out into the world.

In this was the love of God clearly shown toward us, by his sending his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.

If God so loved us, beloved, we also ought to love one another.

In this is love made perfect with us, so that we may have cheerful confidence in the Day of Judgment, because we are living in this world as He lives.

Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God; and every one who loves the Father, loves him also who is the Father's Child.

If we accept men's testimony, the testimony of God is greater; for this is the testimony of God, that he has borne testimony concerning his Son.

I have written these words to you so that you may know that you have eternal life, you who believe in the name of the Son of God.

If any one sees his brother committing a sin that is not deadly, he shall ask, and God will give him life, for any one who is not committing a deadly sin. There is a deadly sin; concerning that I do not say that he should pray.

We know that whoever is a child of God is not habitually committing sin; but he who is God's child guards himself, and the Evil One never touches him.

And we know that the Son of God is come, and has granted us and understanding, so that we may come to know him who is true. And we are in him who is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and life eternal.