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Walking in the Light
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
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Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,
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but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him:
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whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.
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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.
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Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling.
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Do Not Love the World
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
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But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.
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Children of God
And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming.
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And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
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You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.
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No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him.
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No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God.
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Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
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But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?
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Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.
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By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
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Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
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So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
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And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.