6. Everyone staying in Him does not sin. Everyone sinning has neither seen Him nor known Him.
7. Little children, let no one lead you astray. The one doing righteousness is righteous, even as He is righteous.
8. The one doing sin is of the devil, because the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of Elohim was manifested: to destroy the works of the devil.
9. Everyone having been born of Elohim does not sin, because His seed stays in him, and he is powerless to sin, because he has been born of Elohim.
10. In this the children of Elohim and the children of the devil are manifest: Everyone not doing righteousness is not of Elohim, neither the one not loving his brother.
11. Because this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another,
12. not as Qayin who was of the wicked one and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because his works were wicked but those of his brother were righteous.
13. Do not marvel, my brothers, if the world hates you.
14. We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. The one not loving his brother stays in death.
15. Everyone hating his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has everlasting life staying in him.
16. By this we have known love, because He laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
17. But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his tender affections from him, how does the love of Elohim stay in him?
18. My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.