If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

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.

The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.

As for you, see that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.

Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.

No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God.

This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus.

This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

If you see any brother or sister commit a sin that does not lead to death, you should pray and God will give them life. I refer to those whose sin does not lead to death. There is a sin that leads to death. I am not saying that you should pray about that.