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His love is so great that we are called God's children—and so, in fact, we are. This is why the world does not know us: it has not known God. </span><span class="v62_3_2"><span class="reftext" id="1John.3.2" class="v62_3_2">2</span>My dear friends, we are now God's children, but it is not yet clear what we shall become. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he really is. </span><span class="v62_3_3"><span class="reftext" id="1John.3.3" class="v62_3_3">3</span>Everyone who has this hope in Christ keeps himself pure, just as Christ is pure.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v62_3_4"><span class="reftext" id="1John.3.4" class="v62_3_4">4</span>Whoever sins is guilty of breaking God's law, because sin is a breaking of the law. </span><span class="v62_3_5"><span class="reftext" id="1John.3.5" class="v62_3_5">5</span><a href="#fn" id="link_1John.3.5!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> You know that Christ appeared in order to take away sins,<a href="#fn" id="link_1John.3.5!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> and that there is no sin in him. </span><span class="v62_3_6"><span class="reftext" id="1John.3.6" class="v62_3_6">6</span>So everyone who lives in union with Christ does not continue to sin; but whoever continues to sin has never seen him or known him.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v62_3_7"><span class="reftext" id="1John.3.7" class="v62_3_7">7</span>Let no one deceive you, my children! Whoever does what is right is righteous, just as Christ is righteous. </span><span class="v62_3_8"><span class="reftext" id="1John.3.8" class="v62_3_8">8</span>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.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v62_3_9"><span class="reftext" id="1John.3.9" class="v62_3_9">9</span>Those who are children of God do not continue to sin, for God's very nature is in them; and because God is their Father, they cannot continue to sin. </span><span class="v62_3_10"><span class="reftext" id="1John.3.10" class="v62_3_10">10</span>Here is the clear difference between God's children and the Devil's children: those who do not do what is right or do not love others are not God's children.</span></p><h3 class="s">Love One Another</h3><p class="par"><span class="v62_3_11"><span class="reftext" id="1John.3.11" class="v62_3_11">11</span><a href="#fn" id="link_1John.3.11!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> The message you heard from the very beginning is this: we must love one another. </span><span class="v62_3_12"><span class="reftext" id="1John.3.12" class="v62_3_12">12</span><a href="#fn" id="link_1John.3.12!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> We must not be like Cain; he belonged to the Evil One and murdered his own brother Abel. Why did Cain murder him? Because the things he himself did were wrong, and the things his brother did were right.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v62_3_13"><span class="reftext" id="1John.3.13" class="v62_3_13">13</span>So do not be surprised, my friends, if the people of the world hate you. </span><span class="v62_3_14"><span class="reftext" id="1John.3.14" class="v62_3_14">14</span><a href="#fn" id="link_1John.3.14!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> We know that we have left death and come over into life; we know it because we love others. Those who do not love are still under the power of death. </span><span class="v62_3_15"><span class="reftext" id="1John.3.15" class="v62_3_15">15</span>Those who hate others are murderers, and you know that murderers do not have eternal life in them. </span><span class="v62_3_16"><span class="reftext" id="1John.3.16" class="v62_3_16">16</span>This is how we know what love is: Christ gave his life for us. We too, then, ought to give our lives for others! </span><span class="v62_3_17"><span class="reftext" id="1John.3.17" class="v62_3_17">17</span>If we are rich and see others in need, yet close our hearts against them, how can we claim that we love God? </span><span class="v62_3_18"><span class="reftext" id="1John.3.18" class="v62_3_18">18</span>My children, our love should not be just words and talk; it must be true love, which shows itself in action.</span></p><h3 class="s">Courage before God</h3><p class="par"><span class="v62_3_19"><span class="reftext" id="1John.3.19" class="v62_3_19">19</span>This, then, is how we will know that we belong to the truth; this is how we will be confident in God's presence. </span><span class="v62_3_20"><span class="reftext" id="1John.3.20" class="v62_3_20">20</span>If our conscience condemns us, we know that God is greater than our conscience and that he knows everything. </span><span class="v62_3_21"><span class="reftext" id="1John.3.21" class="v62_3_21">21</span>And so, my dear friends, if our conscience does not condemn us, we have courage in God's presence. </span><span class="v62_3_22"><span class="reftext" id="1John.3.22" class="v62_3_22">22</span>We receive from him whatever we ask, because we obey his commands and do what pleases him. </span><span class="v62_3_23"><span class="reftext" id="1John.3.23" class="v62_3_23">23</span><a href="#fn" id="link_1John.3.23!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> What he commands is that we believe in his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as Christ commanded us. </span><span class="v62_3_24"><span class="reftext" id="1John.3.24" class="v62_3_24">24</span>Those who obey God's commands live in union with God and God lives in union with them. And because of the Spirit that God has given us we know that God lives in union with us.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">3.5: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">sins; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">some manuscripts have </char><char style="fq" closed="false">our sins.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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