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1 My little children, I write these things unto you, that ye may not sin. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 2 And He is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. 3 And by this we know that we have known Him, if we keep his commandments. 4 He that saith, I know Him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5 But whosoever keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: and by this we know that we are in Him. 6 He that saith, he abideth in Him, ought himself also so to walk even as He walked. 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 though I write it again as a new commandment, which is truth in Him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth. 1 John 2:1-8, Worsley New Testament. Public domain.
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