The apostle John tells me that he has heard from God, and proclaims to me that God is light and in him is no darkness at all.; that if I walk in the light, as he (God the father) is in the light, I have fellowship with other believers and the blood of Jesus, God’s son, cleanses me from all sin. If I confess my sins he is faithful and just to forgive my sins and cleanse me from all unrighteousness; and if I do sin, I have an advocate with the father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.   He is the propitiation for my sins.

I attend carefully to the word of God and by this I know that I am in him. I know I have come to know him because I keep his commandments. They are life to me. As I do this daily the love of God is perfected in me. I abide in Jesus, the Christ, and in God, the father, and I walk  in the same way my Lord Jesus walked.

I John 1&2