Everyone who resides in him does not sin; everyone who sins has neither seen him nor known him.

Now by this we know that we have come to know God: if we keep his commandments.

If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar and his word is not in us.

The one who says “I have come to know God” and yet does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in such a person.

And this is the confidence that we have before him: that whenever we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

(See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God’s children – and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.

Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever it is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is.

not like Cain who was of the evil one and brutally murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, but his brother’s were righteous.

We know that everyone fathered by God does not sin, but God protects the one he has fathered, and the evil one cannot touch him.

(The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified concerning his Son.)