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

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

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

The one who has the Son has this eternal life; the one who does not have the Son of God does not have this eternal life.

I have not written to you that you do not know the truth, but that you do know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.

As for you, what you have heard from the beginning must remain in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.

The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was revealed: to destroy the works of the devil.

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.

By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness – the one who does not love his fellow Christian – is not of God.

There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears punishment has not been perfected in love.

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.