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5 This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
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This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.
6 If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.
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If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth.
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
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But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.
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