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- My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have one who speaks to the Father in our defense--Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.
- He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.
- We know that we have come to know him if we obey his commands.
- The man who says, "I know him," but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
- But if anyone obeys his word, God's love is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in him:
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- Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did.
- Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command but an old one, which you have had since the beginning. This old command is the message you have heard.
- Yet I am writing you a new command; its truth is seen in him and you, because the darkness is passing and the true light is already shining.
- Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness.
- Whoever loves his brother lives in the light, and there is nothing in him to make him stumble.
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- But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness; he does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded him.
- I write to you, dear children, because your sins have been forgiven on account of his name.
- I write to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, dear children, because you have known the Father.
- I write to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God lives in you, and you have overcome the evil one.
- Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
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- For everything in the world--the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does--comes not from the Father but from the world.
- The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.
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