Everyone who resides<n id="1" /> in him does not sin;<n id="2" /> everyone who sins has neither seen him nor known him.

Everyone who hates his fellow Christian<n id="1" /> is a murderer,<n id="2" /> and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing<n id="3" /> in him.

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ<n id="1" /> has been fathered<n id="2" /> by God, and everyone who loves the father<n id="3" /> loves the child fathered by him.<n id="4" />

If you know that he is righteous, you also know<n id="1" /> that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered<n id="2" /> by him.p>

And everyone who has this hope focused<n id="1" /> on him purifies<n id="2" /> himself, just as Jesus<n id="3" /> is pure).<n id="4" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Everyone who practices sin<n id="1" /> also practices lawlessness;<n id="2" /> indeed,<n id="3" /> sin is lawlessness.

Everyone who denies the Son does not have the Father either. The person who confesses the Son has the Father also.<n id="1" />p>

Everyone who has been fathered<n id="1" /> by God does not practice sin,<n id="2" /> because<n id="3" /> God&#8217;s<n id="4" /> seed<n id="5" /> resides in him, and thus<n id="6" /> he is not able to sin, because he has been fathered by God.

By this<n id="1" /> the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness &#8211; the one who does not love his fellow Christian<n id="2" /> &#8211; is not of God.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Dear friends, let us love one another, because<n id="1" /> love is from God, and everyone who loves<n id="2" /> has been fathered<n id="3" /> by God and knows God.

<p class="bodytext">We know that everyone fathered<n id="1" /> by God does not sin, but God<n id="2" /> protects<n id="3" /> the one he has fathered, and the evil one cannot touch him.