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1 John 3

Children of God Love One Another

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See  1 ahow great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called  bchildren of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because  cit did not know Him.

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 aBeloved, now we are  bchildren of God, and  cit has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He  dappears, we will be  elike Him, because we will  fsee Him just as He is.

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And everyone who has this  ahope fixed on Him  bpurifies himself, just as He is pure.

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Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and  asin is lawlessness.

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You know that He  aappeared in order to  btake away sins; and  cin Him there is no sin.

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No one who abides in Him  asins; no one who sins has seen Him or  1 bknows Him.

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 aLittle children, make sure no one  bdeceives you;  cthe one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous;

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the one who practices sin is  aof the devil; for the devil  1has sinned from the beginning.  bThe Son of God  cappeared for this purpose,  dto destroy the works of the devil.

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No one who is  1 aborn of God  bpractices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is  1born of God.

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By this the  achildren of God and the  bchildren of the devil are obvious:  1anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who  cdoes not love his  dbrother.

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 aFor this is the message  bwhich you have heard from the beginning,  cthat we should love one another;

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not as  aCain, who was of  bthe evil one and slew his brother. And for what reason did he slay him? Because  chis deeds were evil, and his brother's were righteous.

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Do not be surprised, brethren, if  athe world hates you.

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We know that we have  apassed out of death into life,  bbecause we love the brethren. He who does not love abides in death.

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Everyone who  ahates his brother is a murderer; and you know that  bno murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

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We know love by this, that  aHe laid down His life for us; and  bwe ought to lay down our lives for the  cbrethren.

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But  awhoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need and  bcloses his  1heart  2against him,  chow does the love of God abide in him?

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 aLittle children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and  btruth.

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We will know by this that we are  aof the truth, and will  1assure our heart before Him

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 1in whatever our heart condemns us; for God is greater than our heart and knows all things.

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 aBeloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have  bconfidence  1before God;

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and  awhatever we ask we receive from Him, because we  bkeep His commandments and do  cthe things that are pleasing in His sight.

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This is His commandment, that we  1 abelieve in  bthe name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as  cHe  2commanded us.

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The one who  akeeps His commandments  babides in Him, and He in him.  cWe know by this that  dHe abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.



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