5 God is like light and he is not dark at all. That is the message we heard from him. That is the message we are telling you.

6 Do we say that we belong with him? And at the same time, do we live in the dark? Then what we say is not true, and what we do is not right.

7 Do we live in the light, as God is in the light? Then we belong with others who belong to him. And the blood of the death of Jesus Christ makes us clean from all the wrong things we have done.