Little children, let no-one deceive you. 

The one who practises righteousness is righteous. 

Just as he is righteous.

The one who practices sin is from the Devil,
because from the beginning the Devil has been sinning. 

For this [purpose] the Son of God was revealed
            – so that the works of the devil might be undone.

Everyone who is born from God does not practise sin, 

            because the seed of God lives in them.

   and they cannot sin

              because they are born from God

By this the children of God are apparent –  and the children of the Devil

everyone who does not practise righteousness is not from God, 

also the one who does not love his brother or sister.

Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart;
Naught be all else to me, save that thou art –
Thou my best thought, by day or by night;
Waking or sleeping, thy presence my light.