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My little children, these things I write to you, that ye sin not. And if any man sinneth, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
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And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for [the sins of] the whole world.
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And by this we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
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He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
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But whoever keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: by this we know that we are in him.
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He that saith he abideth in him, ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
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Brethren, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning: The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.
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Again, a new commandment I write to you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.