If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and there is no truth in us.

If we say that we have not sinned, we make a liar out of God, and his word is not in us.

If we say that we know him, but do not obey his commands, we are liars and there is no truth in us.

If we say we love God, but hate others, we are liars. For we cannot love God, whom we have not seen, if we do not love others, whom we have seen.

When the Judgment Day comes, many will say to me, 'Lord, Lord! In your name we spoke God's message, by your name we drove out many demons and performed many miracles!'

My friends, what good is it for one of you to say that you have faith if your actions do not prove it? Can that faith save you?

What good is there in your saying to them, "God bless you! Keep warm and eat well!"---if you don't give them the necessities of life?

But someone will say, "One person has faith, another has actions." My answer is, "Show me how anyone can have faith without actions. I will show you my faith by my actions."

You say, 'I am rich and well off; I have all I need.' But you do not know how miserable and pitiful you are! You are poor, naked, and blind.

I advise you, then, to buy gold from me, pure gold, in order to be rich. Buy also white clothing to dress yourself and cover up your shameful nakedness. Buy also some ointment to put on your eyes, so that you may see.

What we have seen and heard we announce to you also, so that you will join with us in the fellowship that we have with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

You are not a God who is pleased with wrongdoing; you allow no evil in your presence.

You destroy all liars and despise violent, deceitful people.

You have nothing to do with corrupt judges, who make injustice legal,

Do not try to work together as equals with unbelievers, for it cannot be done. How can right and wrong be partners? How can light and darkness live together?

How can God's temple come to terms with pagan idols? For we are the temple of the living God! As God himself has said, "I will make my home with my people and live among them; I will be their God, and they shall be my people."

If we say that we are in the light, yet hate others, we are in the darkness to this very hour.

But if we hate others, we are in the darkness; we walk in it and do not know where we are going, because the darkness has made us blind.

"How ignorant you are! How stupid! You are completely corrupt, and justice has disappeared from the world.

those who have abandoned a righteous life to live in the darkness of sin,

The road the righteous travel is like the sunrise, getting brighter and brighter until daylight has come.

The road of the wicked, however, is dark as night. They fall, but cannot see what they have stumbled over.

This is how the judgment works: the light has come into the world, but people love the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds are evil.

Those who do evil things hate the light and will not come to the light, because they do not want their evil deeds to be shown up.

But if they walk during the night they stumble, because they have no light."

Jesus answered, "The light will be among you a little longer. Continue on your way while you have the light, so that the darkness will not come upon you; for the one who walks in the dark does not know where he is going.

I have come into the world as light, so that everyone who believes in me should not remain in the darkness.

If we say that we have not sinned, we make a liar out of God, and his word is not in us.

If we say we love God, but hate others, we are liars. For we cannot love God, whom we have not seen, if we do not love others, whom we have seen.

You are the children of your father, the Devil, and you want to follow your father's desires. From the very beginning he was a murderer and has never been on the side of truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he is only doing what is natural to him, because he is a liar and the father of all lies.

But I tell the truth, and that is why you do not believe me.

Such teachings are spread by deceitful liars, whose consciences are dead, as if burnt with a hot iron.

But those who do what is true come to the light in order that the light may show that what they did was in obedience to God.