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For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext2">See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Dear friends, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever it is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And everyone who has this hope focused on him purifies himself, just as Jesus is pure). <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; indeed, sin is lawlessness.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And you know that Jesus was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Everyone who resides in him does not sin; everyone who sins has neither seen him nor known him.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Jesus is righteous.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was revealed: to destroy the works of the devil.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Everyone who has been fathered by God does not practice sin, because God's seed resides in him, and thus he is not able to sin, because he has been fathered by God.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God’s seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness--the one who does not love his fellow Christian--is not of God. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For this is the gospel message that you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">not like Cain who was of the evil one and brutally murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, but his brother's were righteous. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Therefore do not be surprised, brothers and sisters, if the world hates you.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">We know that we have crossed over from death to life because we love our fellow Christians. The one who does not love remains in death.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Everyone who hates his fellow Christian is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But whoever has the world's possessions and sees his fellow Christian in need and shuts off his compassion against him, how can the love of God reside in such a person? <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue but in deed and truth.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And by this we will know that we are of the truth and will convince our conscience in his presence,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext2">By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/3-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext1">that if our conscience condemns us, that God is greater than our conscience and knows all things.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/3-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext2">for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/3-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Dear friends, if our conscience does not condemn us, we have confidence in the presence of God,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/3-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/3-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext1">and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing to him.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/3-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext2">and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/3-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Now this is his commandment: that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he gave us the commandment.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/3-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/3-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And the person who keeps his commandments resides in God, and God in him. 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