5. You know that Christ came to take away sins. There is no sin in Christ.
6. So the person who lives in Christ does not go on sinning. If he goes on sinning, he has never really understood Christ and has never known him.
7. Dear children, do not let any person lead you the wrong way. Christ is righteous. To be like Christ, a person must do what is right.
8. The devil has been sinning since the beginning. Anyone who continues to sin belongs to the devil. The Son of God came for this purpose: to destroy the devil’s work.
9. When God makes someone his child, that person does not go on sinning. The new life God gave that person stays in him. So he is not able to go on sinning, because he has become a child of God.
10. So we can see who God’s children are and who the devil’s children are. Those who do not do what is right are not children of God. And anyone who does not love his brother is not a child of God.
11. This is the teaching you have heard from the beginning: We must love each other.