1My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may be without sin. And if any man is a sinner, we have a friend and helper with the Father, Jesus Christ, the upright one:
2He is the offering for our sins; and not for ours only, but for all the world.
3And by this we may be certain that we have knowledge of him, if we keep his laws.
4The man who says, I have knowledge of him, and does not keep his laws, is false, and there is nothing true in him:
5But in every man who keeps his word, the love of God is made complete. By this we may be certain that we are in him:
6He who says that he is living in him, will do as he did.
7My loved ones, I do not give you a new law, but an old law which you had from the first; this old law is the word which came to your ears.
