The First Epistle of John Chapter 1 verses 5-10

5) Here, then, is the message we have heard from him and announce to you:

That God is light, in him there is no darkness.

Claims of False Teachers

6) If we say”We have fellowship with him,” while continuing to walk in darkness, we are liars and do not act in truth.

7)But if we walk in light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and )the blood of His Son Jesus cleanses us from all sin.

8) If we say, “We are free of the guilt of sin,” we decieve ourselves; the truth is not to be found in us.

9) But if we acknowledge our sins, he who is just can be trusted to forgive our sins and cleanse us from every wrong.

10) If we say,”We have never sinned,” we make him a liar and his word finds no place in us.

Chapter 2  verses 1-11     1) My little ones,I am writing this to keep you from sin.   But if anyone should sin, we have, in the presence of the Father, Jesus Christ, an intercessor who is just.   2) He is an offoring for our sins, and not for our sins only, but for those of the whole world. 

Keeping the Commandments,

3)The way we can be sure of our knowledge of him is to keep his commandments,

4)The man who claims, “I have known him,” without keeping the commandments, is a liar; in such a one there is no truth.

5) But whoever keeps his word, truly has the love of God been made perfect in him.   The way we can be sure we are in union with him

6) is for the man who claims to abide in him to conduct himself just as he did.

7)Dearly beloved, it is no new commandment that I write to you, but an old one which you had from the start   The commandment, now old, is the word you have already heard.

8) On second thought, the commandment that I write you is new as it is realized in him and you, for the darkness is over and the real light begins to shine.

9) The man who claims to be in the light, hating his brother all the while, is in darkness even now.

10) The man who continues in the light is the one who loves his brother; there is nothing in him to cause a fall.

11) But the man who hates his brother is in darkness.   He walks in shadows, not knowing where he is going, since the dark has blinded his eyes.