1 John 2:1-8 ▼

1 My little children, I'm writing these things to you so that you might not sin. Yet if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus, the Messiah, one who is righteous.

2 It is he who is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world's.

3 This is how we can be sure that we have come to know him: if we continually keep his commandments.

4 The person who says, |I have come to know him,| but does not continually keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth has no place in that person.

5 But whoever continually keeps his commandments is the kind of person in whom God's love has truly been perfected. This is how we can be sure that we are in union with God:

6 The one who says that he abides in him must live the same way he himself lived.

7 Dear friends, I am not writing to you a new commandment, but an old commandment that you have had from the beginning. This old commandment is the word you have heard.

8 On the other hand, I am writing to you a new commandment that is truly in him and in you. For the darkness is fading away, and the true light is already shining.