3See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.G1492G4217G26G3962G1325G2254G2443G2564G5043G2316G1223G5124G2889G1097G2248G3756G3754G1097G846G37562Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.G27G3568G2070G5043G2316G2532G5319G3768G5319G5101G2071G1161G1492G3754G1437G5319G2071G3664G846G3754G3700G846G2531G20763All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.G2532G3956G2192G5026G1680G1909G846G48G1438G2531G1565G2076G534Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness.G3956G4160G266G4160G458G2532G458G2532G266G2076G4585But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin.G2532G1492G3754G1565G5319G2443G142G2257G266G2532G1722G846G2076G3756G2666No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.G3956G3306G1722G846G264G3756G3956G264G3708G3756G3708G846G3761G1097G8467Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous.G5040G4105G3367G4105G5209G4160G1343G2076G1342G2531G1565G2076G13428The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work.G4160G266G2076G1537G1228G3754G1228G264G575G746G1519G5124G5207G2316G5319G2443G3089G2041G12289Those who are born of God will not continue to sin, because God's seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God.G3956G1080G1537G2316G4160G3756G266G3754G846G4690G3306G1722G846G2532G3756G1410G264G3754G1080G1537G231610This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Those who do not do what is right are not God's children; nor are those who do not love their brothers and sisters.G1722G5129G5043G2316G2076G5318G2532G5043G1228G3956G4160G3361G1343G2076G3756G1537G2316G2532G25G3361G846G8011For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another.G3754G3778G2076G31G3739G191G575G746G2443G25G24012Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother's were righteous.G3756G2531G2535G2258G1537G4190G2532G4969G846G80G2532G5484G5101G4969G846G3754G846G2041G2258G4190G1161G846G80G134213Do not be surprised, my brothers and sisters, if the world hates you.G2296G3361G3450G80G1487G2889G3404G520914We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love each other. Anyone who does not love remains in death.G1492G3754G2249G3327G1537G2288G1519G2222G3754G25G80G25G3361G80G3306G1722G228815Anyone who hates a fellow believer is a murderer, and you know that no murderers have eternal life in them.G3956G3404G846G80G2076G443G2532G1492G3754G3756G3956G443G2192G166G2222G3306G1722G84616This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for one another.G1722G5129G1097G26G3754G1565G5087G846G5590G5228G2257G2532G2249G3784G5087G5590G5228G8017If any one of you has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in you?G1161G3739G302G2192G2889G979G2532G2334G846G80G2192G5532G2532G2808G846G4698G575G846G4459G3306G26G2316G1722G84618Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.G3450G5040G25G3361G25G3056G3366G1100G235G2041G2532G22519This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence:G2532G1722G5129G1097G3754G2070G1537G225G2532G3982G2257G2588G1715G84620If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.G3754G1437G2257G2588G2607G3754G2316G2076G3187G2257G2588G2532G1097G395621Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before GodG27G3362G2257G2588G2607G2257G3362G2192G3954G4314G231622and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him.G2532G3739G1437G154G2983G3844G846G3754G5083G846G1785G2532G4160G701G846G179923And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.G2532G3778G2076G846G1785G2443G4100G3686G846G5207G2424G5547G2532G25G240G2531G1325G2254G178524Those who keep his commands live in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.G2532G5083G846G1785G3306G1722G846G2532G846G1722G846G2532G1722G5129G1097G3754G3306G1722G2254G1537G4151G3739G1325G2254