Dear friends, if our conscience does not condemn us, we have confidence in the presence of God,

If we say we do not bear the guilt of sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.

If we say we have fellowship with him and yet keep on walking in the darkness, we are lying and not practicing the truth.

(My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin.) But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous One,

And the commandment we have from him is this: that the one who loves God should love his fellow Christian too.

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

And if we know that he hears us in regard to whatever we ask, then we know that we have the requests that we have asked from him.

But if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.