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13 These things we wrote to you so that you may know that you have eternal life to them believing in the name of the Son of the God.
14 And this is the boldness that we have before Him, because if we request something according to His will, He listens to us.
15 And if we know that He listens to us, to what we perhaps request, we know that we have the petitions that we ask from Him.
16 If perhaps someone would see the brother of his sinning a sin not unto death, he will request, and life will be given to him, to them sinning not unto death. There is sin unto death. Not about that do I say that he should ask.
17 Every injustice is a sin, and there is sin not unto death.
18 We know that everyone who is born of the God does not sin*. Instead, the person born of the God keeps himself, and the evil one does not touch him.
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Notes
v 18 A Christian sibling who is sinning a sin not unto death has lost his or her life from God and needs prayer and a new granting of life from God.