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My dear children, I'm writing this to you so that you will not sin. Yet, if anyone does sin, we have Jesus Christ, who has God's full approval. He speaks on our behalf when we come into the presence of the Father.
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He is the payment for our sins, and not only for our sins, but also for the sins of the whole world.
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We are sure that we know Christ if we obey his commandments.
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The person who says, "I know him," but doesn't obey his commandments is a liar. The truth isn't in that person.
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But whoever obeys what Christ says is the kind of person in whom God's love is perfected. That's how we know we are in Christ.
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Those who say that they live in him must live the same way he lived.