John's First Letter (WEB)
3:1 Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of
God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him. 3:2Beloved, now we are
children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is
revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is. 3:3Everyone who has this hope set
on him purifies himself, even as he is pure. 3:4Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is
lawlessness. 3:5You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and in him is no sin.
3:6Whoever remains in him doesn't sin. Whoever sins hasn't seen him, neither knows him. 3:7Little
children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is
righteous. 3:8He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this
end the Son of God was revealed, that he might destroy the works of the devil. 3:9Whoever is born
of God doesn't commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can't sin, because he is born
of God. 3:10In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn't
do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn't love his brother. 3:11For this is the
message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another; 3:12unlike Cain,
who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his works were
evil, and his brother's righteous. 3:13Don't be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you. 3:14We
know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn't
love his brother remains in death. 3:15Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that
no murderer has eternal life remaining in him. 3:16By this we know love, because he laid down his
life for us. We ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 3:17But whoever has the world's goods,
and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his compassion from him, how does the love of God
remain in him? 3:18My little children, let's not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but
in deed and truth. 3:19And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before
him, 3:20because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.
3:21Beloved, if our hearts don't condemn us, we have boldness toward God; 3:22and whatever we ask,
we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in
his sight. 3:23This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ,
and love one another, even as he commanded. 3:24He who keeps his commandments remains in
him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.