1. My children, these things I write to you in order that ye may not sin; and if any one sin, we have a patron with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous;
2. and he is the propitiation for our sins; but not for ours alone, but also for the whole world.
3. And hereby we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
4. He that says, I know him, and does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;
5. but whoever keeps his word, in him verily the love of God is perfected. Hereby we know that we are in him.
6. He that says he abides in him ought, even as he walked, himself also so to walk.
7. Beloved, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment, which ye have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye heard.