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My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous;
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and he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
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Now by this we may be sure that we know him, if we obey his commandments.
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Whoever says, "I have come to know him," but does not obey his commandments, is a liar, and in such a person the truth does not exist;
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but whoever obeys his word, truly in this person the love of God has reached perfection. By this we may be sure that we are in him:
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whoever says, "I abide in him," ought to walk just as he walked.
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Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word that you have heard.