1 John 2:1-8 ▼

1 MY dear children, these things I write to you, that ye should not sin. And if any of us sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

2 and he himself is the propitiatory victim for our sins: and indeed not for ours only, but for the whole world.

3 And hereby we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and in him the truth is not.

5 But whosoever keepeth his word, verily in him is the love of God perfected: by this we know that we are in him.

6 He who saith that he abideth in him, ought as he walked, even so himself to walk.

7 Brethren, I write not a new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning: the old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.

8 Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which is a true thing in him, and in you, because the darkness is past, and the true light is now shining.