2My loved ones, now we are children of God, and at present it is not clear what we are to be. We are certain that at his revelation we will be like him; for we will see him as he is.
3And everyone who has this hope in him makes himself holy, even as he is holy.
4Everyone who is a sinner goes against the law, for sin is going against the law.
5And you have knowledge that he came to take away sin: and in him there is no sin.
6Anyone who is in him does no sin; anyone who is a sinner has not seen him and has no knowledge of him.
7My little children, let no man take you out of the true way: he who does righteousness is upright, even as he is upright;
8The sinner is a child of the Evil One; for the Evil One has been a sinner from the first. And the Son of God was seen on earth so that he might put an end to the works of the Evil One.
