1:6 If we say we have fellowship with him and yet keep on walking 1 in the darkness, we are lying and not practicing 2 the truth.
1 John 1:10
1:10 If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar and his word is not in us.
1 tn The context of this statement in 1:6 indicates clearly that the progressive (continuative or durative) aspect of the present tense must be in view here.