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My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
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And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.
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Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments.
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He who says, "I know Him," and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
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But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him.
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He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.
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Brethren, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you 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 passing away, and the true light is already shining.