1. My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one,
2. and he--he is a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world,
3. and in this we know that we have known him, if his commands we may keep;
4. he who is saying, `I have known him,' and his command is not keeping, a liar he is, and in him the truth is not;
5. and whoever may keep his word, truly in him the love of God hath been perfected; in this we know that in him we are.