²¹ But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.

⁶ If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness,^(A) we lie and do not live out the truth.^(B)

¹¹ Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil but what is good.^(A) Anyone who does what is good is from God.^(B) Anyone who does what is evil has not seen God.^(C)

¹⁵ If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God,^(A) God lives in them and they in God.^{(B) 16} And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.

God is love.^(C) Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.^(D)

²⁷ As for you, the anointing^(A) you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things^(B) and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit—just as it has taught you, remain in him.^(C)

God’s Children and Sin

²⁸ And now, dear children,^(D) continue in him, so that when he appears^(E) we may be confident^(F) and unashamed before him at his coming.^(G)

²⁹ If you know that he is righteous,^(H) you know that everyone who does what is right has been born of him.^(I)

⁹ (for the fruit^(A) of the light consists in all goodness,^(B) righteousness and truth)

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⁸ Whoever sows to please their flesh,^(A) from the flesh will reap destruction;^(B) whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.^(C)