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.

We love because he loved us first.

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

All unrighteousness is sin, but there is sin not resulting in death.

Little children, guard yourselves from idols.

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

These things I have written to you about those who are trying to deceive you.

By this we know that we reside in God and he in us: in that he has given us of his Spirit.

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.