1 John 1:8-2:6

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁸ If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

⁹ If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all iniquity.

¹⁰ If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

2 My little children, these things I write to you, that you may not sin. But if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the just:

² And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.

³ And by this we know that we have known him, if we keep his commandments.

⁴ He who saith that he knoweth him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

⁵ But he that keepeth his word, in him in very deed the charity of God is perfected; and by this we know that we are in him.

⁶ He that saith he abideth in him, ought himself also to walk, even as he walked.