Fr. Mike Schmitz

and we are writing this, that our joy may be complete.

God is light.

This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light and in him is no darkness at all.

If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not live according to the truth.

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

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

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

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

Chapter 2.

Christ is our advocate.

My little children, I am writing this to you so that you may not sin.

But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

And he is the expiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

And by this we may be sure that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

He who says, I know him, but disobeys his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

But whoever keeps his word, in him truly love for God is perfected.

By this we may be sure that we are in him.

He who says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.

A New Commandment Beloved, I am writing to you no new commandment, but an old commandment, which you had from the beginning.

The old commandment is the word which you have heard.