If we say we are joined to him, and are walking still in the dark, our words are false and our acts are untrue:

He who says that he is in the light, and has hate in his heart for his brother, is still in the dark.

They went out from us but they were not of us; if they had been of us they would still be with us: but they went out from us so that it might be made clear that they were not of us.

As for you, the Spirit which he gave you is still in you, and you have no need of any teacher; but as his Spirit gives you teaching about all things, and is true and not false, so keep your hearts in him, through the teaching which he has given you.

Anyone who is a child of God does no sin, because he still has God's seed in him; he is not able to be a sinner, because God is his Father.

We are conscious that we have come out of death into life because of our love for the brothers. He who has no love is still in death.