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My little children, these things write I unto you that ye may not sin. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
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and he is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
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And hereby we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
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He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;
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but whoso keepeth his word, in him verily hath the love of God been perfected. Hereby we know that we are in him:
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he that saith he abideth in him ought himself also to walk even as he walked.
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Beloved, no new commandment write I unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning: the old commandment is the word which ye heard.
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Again, a new commandment write I unto you, which thing is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shineth.
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He that saith he is in the light and hateth his brother, is in the darkness even until now.