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>

Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness<n id="1" /> is righteous, just as Jesus<n id="2" /> is righteous.

And by this<n id="1" /> we will know that we are of the truth and will convince<n id="2" /> our conscience<n id="3" /> in his presence,<n id="4" />

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us insight to know<n id="1" /> him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one<n id="2" /> is the true God and eternal life.

<p class="bodytext">If anyone says<n id="1" /> &#8220;I love God&#8221; and yet<n id="2" /> hates his fellow Christian,<n id="3" /> he is a liar, because the one who does not love his fellow Christian<n id="4" /> whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.<n id="5" />

<p class="bodytext">Dear friends, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning.<n id="1" /> The old commandment is the word that you have already<n id="2" /> heard.

On the other hand, I am writing a new commandment to you which is true in him<n id="1" /> and in you, because<n id="2" /> the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.<n id="3" />

I am writing to you, fathers, that<n id="1" /> you have known him who has been from the beginning. I am writing to you, young people, that<n id="2" /> you have conquered the evil one.<n id="3" />

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.

Now<n id="1" /> this is his commandment:<n id="2" /> that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he gave<n id="3" /> us the commandment.

And the person who keeps his commandments resides<n id="1" /> in God,<n id="2" /> and God<n id="3" /> in him. Now by this<n id="4" /> we know that God<n id="5" /> resides in us: by the Spirit he has given us.p>

If we say we have fellowship with him and yet keep on walking<n id="1" /> in the darkness, we are lying and not practicing<n id="2" /> the truth.

But if we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous,<n id="1" /> forgiving<n id="2" /> us our sins and cleansing<n id="3" /> us from all unrighteousness.

I have not written to you that<n id="1" /> you do not know the truth, but that<n id="2" /> you do know it, and that<n id="3" /> no lie is of the truth.

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.

and<n id="1" /> whatever we ask we receive from him, because<n id="2" /> we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing to him.

No one has seen God at any time.<n id="1" /> If we love one another, God resides<n id="2" /> in us, and his love is perfected in us.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">And this is the confidence that we have before him: that<n id="1" /> whenever<n id="2" /> we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.