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My little children, these things I write to you, that you may not sin. But if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the just.
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And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.
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And by this we know that we have known him, if we keep his commandments.
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He who saith that he knoweth him and keepeth not his commandments is a liar: and the truth is not in him.
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But he that keepeth his word, in him in very deed the charity of God is perfected. And by this 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.