6. No one who remains joined to him keeps on sinning. No one who keeps on sinning has seen him or known him.
7. Dear children, don't let anyone lead you down the wrong path. Those who do what is right are holy, just as Christ is holy.
8. Those who do what is sinful belong to the devil. They are just like him. He has been sinning from the beginning. But the Son of God came to destroy the devil's work.
9. Those who are born again because of what God has done will not keep on sinning. God's very nature remains in them. They can't go on sinning. They have been born again because of what God has done.