Everyone who commits sin practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness. You know that he was revealed so that he might take away sins,[a](A) and there is no sin in him.(B) Everyone who remains in him(C) does not sin;[b](D) everyone who sins[c] has not seen him or known him.

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Footnotes

  1. 3:5 Other mss read our sins
  2. 3:6 Or not keep on sinning
  3. 3:6 Or who keeps on sinning

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