We love because he loved us first.

Now this is the gospel message we have heard from him and announce to you: God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.

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.

But the one who hates his fellow Christian is in the darkness, walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

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.

Everyone who has been fathered by God does not practice sin, because God’s seed resides in him, and thus he is not able to sin, because he has been fathered by God.

Now this is his commandment: that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he gave us the commandment.

By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we may live through him.

In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

If anyone sees his fellow Christian committing a sin not resulting in death, he should ask, and God will grant life to the person who commits a sin not resulting in death. There is a sin resulting in death. I do not say that he should ask about that.

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 says he is in the light but still hates his fellow Christian is still in the darkness.

Now this is the promise that he himself made to us: eternal life.

If you know that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered by him.

And everyone who has this hope focused on him purifies himself, just as Jesus is pure).

And you know that Jesus was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.

And by this we will know that we are of the truth and will convince our conscience in his presence,

Now as for you, the anointing that you received from him resides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things, it is true and is not a lie. Just as it has taught you, you reside in 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.)

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