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My children, these things I write to you in order that ye may not sin; and if any one sin, we have a patron with the Father, Jesus Christ [the] righteous;
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and *he* is the propitiation for our sins; but not for ours alone, 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 says, I know him, and does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;
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but whoever keeps his word, in him verily the love of God is perfected. Hereby we know that we are in him.
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He that says he abides in him ought, even as *he* walked, himself also [so] to walk.
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Beloved, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment, which ye have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye heard.