1 John 3:1-21 ▼

1 See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God—and we are! Because of this, the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.

2 Beloved, now we are children of God, and what we will be was not yet made manifest. We know that if He should be made manifest, we will be like Him, for we will see Him just as He is.

3 And everyone having this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

4 Everyone who is doing sin also does lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.

5 And you? know that He appeared so that He should take away sins; and in Him there is no sin.

6 Everyone who is remaining in Him does not sin; everyone who is sinning has not seen Him, nor has he known Him.

7 Little children, let no one lead you? astray; the one doing righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous.

8 The one doing sin is of the devil, because the devil is sinning from the beginning. For this the Son of God was made manifest, so that He might destroy the works of the devil.

9 Everyone having been born of God does not do sin, because His seed remains in him, and he is not able to sin, because he has been born of God.

10 In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: everyone not doing righteousness is not of God, and the one not loving his brother.

11 For this is the message that you? heard from the beginning, that we should love one another,

12 not as Cain, who was of the evil one and slew his brother. And why did he slay him? Because his works were evil, but those of his brother were righteous.

13 And do not marvel, brothers, if the world hates you?.

14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love our brothers. The one not loving remains in death.

15 Everyone hating his brother is a murderer; and you? know that any murderer does not have eternal life remaining in him.

16 In this we have known love, because He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

17 Now whoever may have the goods of the world, and may see his brother having need, and might shut his heart from him, how does the love of God remain in him?

18 Little children, may we love not in word nor in tongue, but in work and in truth.

19 And in this we will know that we are of the truth, and we will assure our heart before Him,

20 that if our heart may condemn us, that God is greater than our heart, and He knows all things.

21 Beloved, if our heart may not condemn us, we have confidence toward God,