^{5 Ref} And this is the message that we have heard from Him, and announce to you, that God is light, and darkness in Him is not at all;

^{6 Ref} if we may say -- `we have fellowship with Him,' and in the darkness may walk -- we lie, and do not the truth;

^{7 Ref} and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light -- we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;

^{8 Ref} if we may say -- `we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us;