1 John 1:3-10 ▼

3 This is the life we have seen and heard. We are reporting about it to you also so that you, too, can have a relationship with us. Our relationship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

4 We are writing this so that we can be completely filled with joy.

5 This is the message we heard from Christ and are reporting to you: God is light, and there isn't any darkness in him.

6 If we say, |We have a relationship with God| and yet live in the dark, we're lying. We aren't being truthful.

7 But if we live in the light in the same way that God is in the light, we have a relationship with each other. And the blood of his Son Jesus cleanses us from every sin.

8 If we say, |We aren't sinful| we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

9 God is faithful and reliable. If we confess our sins, he forgives them and cleanses us from everything we've done wrong.

10 If we say, |We have never sinned,| we turn God into a liar and his Word is not in us.