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My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may be without sin. And if any man is a sinner, we have a friend and helper with the Father, Jesus Christ, the upright one:
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He is the offering for our sins; and not for ours only, but for all the world.
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And by this we may be certain that we have knowledge of him, if we keep his laws.
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The man who says, I have knowledge of him, and does not keep his laws, is false, and there is nothing true in him:
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But in every man who keeps his word, the love of God is made complete. By this we may be certain that we are in him:
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He who says that he is living in him, will do as he did.
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My loved ones, I do not give you a new law, but an old law which you had from the first; this old law is the word which came to your ears.