1. My little children, these things write I 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 whole world.
3. And hereby know we 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 the truth is not in him:
5. but whoso keepeth his word, in him verily hath the love of God been perfected. Hereby know we that we are in him:
6. he that saith he abideth in him ought himself also to walk even as he walked.
7. Beloved, no new commandment write I unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning: the old commandment is the word which ye heard.