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1 John 2:1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

1 John 2:1 ESV

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

1 John 2:3 ESV

And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments.

1 John 2:4 ESV

Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him

1 John 2:5 ESV

but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him

1 John 2:6 ESV

whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.

1 John 2:7 ESV

Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard.

1 John 2:8 ESV

At the same time, it is a new commandment that I am writing to you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.

1 John 2:9 ESV

Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness.

1 John 2:10 ESV

Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling.

1 John 2:11 ESV

But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.