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The Son of God appeared for this very reason, to destroy what the Devil had done. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/1_john/3-8.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/1_john/3-8.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/1_john/3-8.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/1_john/1.htm">1 John</a> > <a href="/gntd/1_john/3.htm">Chapter 3</a> > Verse 8</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_john/3-7.htm" title="1 John 3:7">◄</a> 1 John 3:8 <a href="../1_john/3-9.htm" title="1 John 3:9">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/1_john/3.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/1_john/3.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Whoever continues to sin belongs to the Devil, because the Devil has sinned from the very beginning. The Son of God appeared for this very reason, to destroy what the Devil had done. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/1_john/3.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Everyone who commits sin is a child of the devil; for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The Son of God was revealed for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/1_john/3.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Anyone who keeps on sinning belongs to the devil. He has sinned from the beginning, but the Son of God came to destroy all that he has done. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/1_john/3.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Whoever sins belongs to the devil, because the devil has sinned from the beginning. Indeed, the Son of God was revealed to destroy the works of the devil.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/1_john/3.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />He that committeth sin is of the devil: for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God appeared, that he might destroy the works of the devil.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">He that committeth sin is of the devil: for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God appeared, that he might destroy the works of the devil.</p><p class="hdg">He that.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_john/3-10.htm">1 John 3:10</a> In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil. Whosoever is not just is not of God, or he that loveth not his brother.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_john/5-19.htm">1 John 5:19</a> We know that we are of God and the whole world is seated in wickedness.</p><p class="hdg2">*Gr:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/13-38.htm">Matthew 13:38</a> And the field is the world. And the good seed are the children of the kingdom. And the cockle are the children of the wicked one.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/8-44.htm">John 8:44</a> You are of your father the devil: and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning: and he stood not in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ephesians/2-2.htm">Ephesians 2:2</a> Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of this air, of the spirit that now worketh on the children of unbelief:</p><p class="hdg">for.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_peter/2-4.htm">2 Peter 2:4</a> For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but delivered them, drawn down by infernal ropes to the lower hell, unto torments, to be reserved unto judgment:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jude/1-6.htm">Jude 1:6</a> And the angels who kept not their principality but forsook their own habitation, he hath reserved under darkness in everlasting chains, unto the judgment of the great day.</p><p class="hdg">this purpose.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_john/3-5.htm">1 John 3:5</a> And you know that he appeared to take away our sins: and in him there is no sin.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/3-15.htm">Genesis 3:15</a> I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/27-1.htm">Isaiah 27:1</a> In that day the Lord with his hard, and great, and strong sword shall visit leviathan the bar serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent, and shall slay the whale that is in the sea.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../mark/1-24.htm">Mark 1:24</a> Saying: What have we to do with thee, Jesus of Nazareth? Art thou come to destroy us? I know who thou art, the Holy One of God.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../luke/10-18.htm">Luke 10:18</a> And he said to them: I saw Satan like lightning falling from heaven.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/12-31.htm">John 12:31</a> Now is the judgment of the world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/16-11.htm">John 16:11</a> And of judgment: because the prince of this world is already judged.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../romans/16-20.htm">Romans 16:20</a> And the God of peace crush Satan under your feet speedily. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../colossians/2-15.htm">Colossians 2:15</a> And despoiling the principalities and powers, he hath exposed them confidently in open shew, triumphing over them in himself.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hebrews/2-14.htm">Hebrews 2:14</a> Therefore because the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner hath been partaker of the same: that, through death, he might destroy him who had the empire of death, that is to say, the devil:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../revelation/20-2.htm">Revelation 20:2,3,10,15</a> And he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. . . . </p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/1_john/3.htm">Children of God</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">7</span>Little children, let no man deceive you. He that doth justice is just, even as he is just. <span class="reftext">8</span><span class="highl">He that committeth sin is of the devil: for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God appeared, that he might destroy the works of the devil.</span> <span class="reftext">9</span>Whosoever is born of God committeth not sin: for his seed abideth in him. And he cannot sin, because he is born of God.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../matthew/4-3.htm">Matthew 4:3</a></span><br />And the tempter coming said to him: If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../matthew/12-28.htm">Matthew 12:28</a></span><br />But if I by the Spirit of God cast out devils, then is the kingdom of God come upon you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../matthew/13-38.htm">Matthew 13:38</a></span><br />And the field is the world. And the good seed are the children of the kingdom. And the cockle are the children of the wicked one.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/8-44.htm">John 8:44</a></span><br />You are of your father the devil: and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning: and he stood not in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/12-31.htm">John 12:31</a></span><br />Now is the judgment of the world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/16-11.htm">John 16:11</a></span><br />And of judgment: because the prince of this world is already judged.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_timothy/3-16.htm">1 Timothy 3:16</a></span><br />And evidently great is the mystery of godliness, which was manifested in the flesh, was justified in the spirit, appeared unto angels, hath been preached unto the Gentiles, is believed in the world, is taken up in glory.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../hebrews/2-14.htm">Hebrews 2:14</a></span><br />Therefore because the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner hath been partaker of the same: that, through death, he might destroy him who had the empire of death, that is to say, the devil:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../hebrews/9-26.htm">Hebrews 9:26</a></span><br />For then he ought to have suffered often from the beginning of the world. But now once, at the end of ages, he hath appeared for the destruction of sin by the sacrifice of himself.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_john/1-2.htm">1 John 1:2</a></span><br />For the life was manifested: and we have seen and do bear witness and declare unto you the life eternal, which was with the Father and hath appeared to us.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_john/3-5.htm">1 John 3:5</a></span><br />And you know that he appeared to take away our sins: and in him there is no sin.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_john/3-10.htm">1 John 3:10</a></span><br />In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil. 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