1 John 2

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.

⁸Again, I give you a new law, which is true in him and in you; for the night is near its end and the true light is even now shining out.

⁹He who says that he is in the light, and has hate in his heart for his brother, is still in the dark.

¹⁰He who has love for his brother is in the light, and there is no cause of error in him.

¹¹But he who has hate for his brother is in the dark, walking in the dark with no knowledge of where he is going, unable to see because of the dark.

¹²I am writing to you, my children, because you have forgiveness of sins through his name.

I am writing to you, fathers, because you have knowledge of him who was from the first. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the Evil One. I have sent a letter to you, children, because you have knowledge of the Father.