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).

Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Jesus is righteous.

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

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us insight to know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.

If anyone says “I love God” and yet hates his fellow Christian, he is a liar, because the one who does not love his fellow Christian whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

Dear friends, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have already heard.

On the other hand, I am writing a new commandment to you which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.

I am writing to you, fathers, that you have known him who has been from the beginning. I am writing to you, young people, that you have conquered the evil one.

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.

And the person who keeps his commandments resides in God, and God in him. Now by this we know that God resides in us: by the Spirit he has given 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.

But if we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous, forgiving us our sins and cleansing us from all unrighteousness.

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.

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

Everyone who hates his fellow Christian is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.

and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing to him.

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God resides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

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