1. My little children, these things write I unto you, that you sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
2. And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
3. And by this we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
4. He that says, I know him, and keeps not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
5. But whoever keeps his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: by this we know that we are in him.
6. He that says he abides in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
7. Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you have heard from the beginning.