⁹ Anyone who is a child of God does no sin, because he still has God's seed in him; he is not able to be a sinner, because God is his Father.

¹⁸ We are certain that one who is a child of God will do no sin, but the Son of God keeps him so that he is not touched by the Evil One.

¹³ Whose birth was from God and not from blood, or from an impulse of the flesh and man's desire.

²⁹ If you have knowledge that he is upright, it is clear to you that everyone who does righteousness is his offspring.

¹ Everyone who has faith that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God: and everyone who has love for the Father has love for his child.

⁷ My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.

²³ Because you have had a new birth, not from the seed of man, but from eternal seed, through the word of a living and unchanging God.

³ Jesus said to him, Truly, I say to you, Without a new birth no man is able to see the kingdom of God.

¹⁷ For the flesh has desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; because these are opposite the one to the other; so that you may not do the things which you have a mind to do.

²⁰ For it is not possible for us to keep from saying what we have seen and have knowledge of.

⁴ Anything which comes from God is able to overcome the world: and the power by which we have overcome the world is our faith.

² In no way. How may we, who are dead to sin, be living in it any longer?

¹⁸ It is not possible for a good tree to give bad fruit, and a bad tree will not give good fruit.

²⁸ If you say, How cruel we will be to him! because the root of sin is clearly in him:

² In the hope of eternal life, which was made certain before eternal time, by the word of God who is ever true;