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

1 John 2:1 NIV

My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.

1 John 2:3 NIV

We know that we have come to know him if we keep his commands.

1 John 2:4 NIV

Whoever says, “I know him,” but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person.

1 John 2:5 NIV

But if anyone obeys his word, love for God is truly made complete in them. This is how we know we are in him

1 John 2:6 NIV

Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did.

1 John 2:7 NIV

Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command but an old one, which you have had since the beginning. This old command is the message you have heard.

1 John 2:8 NIV

Yet I am writing you a new command; its truth is seen in him and in you, because the darkness is passing and the true light is already shining.

1 John 2:9 NIV

Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates a brother or sister is still in the darkness.

1 John 2:10 NIV

Anyone who loves their brother and sister lives in the light, and there is nothing in them to make them stumble.

1 John 2:11 NIV

But anyone who hates a brother or sister is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness. They do not know where they are going, because the darkness has blinded them.