3See how great a love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and [such] we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.G1492G4217G26G3962G1325G2254G2443G2564G5043G2316G1223G5124G2889G1097G2248G3756G3754G1097G846G37562Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we shall be. We know that, when He appears, we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him just as He is.G27G3568G2070G5043G2316G2532G5319G3768G5319G5101G2071G1161G1492G3754G1437G5319G2071G3664G846G3754G3700G846G2531G20763And everyone who has this hope [fixed] on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.G2532G3956G2192G5026G1680G1909G846G48G1438G2531G1565G2076G534Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.G3956G4160G266G4160G458G2532G458G2532G266G2076G4585And you know that He appeared in order to take away sins; and in Him there is no sin.G2532G1492G3754G1565G5319G2443G142G2257G266G2532G1722G846G2076G3756G2666No one who abides in Him sins; no one who sins has seen Him or knows Him.G3956G3306G1722G846G264G3756G3956G264G3708G3756G3708G846G3761G1097G8467Little children, let no one deceive you; the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous;G5040G4105G3367G4105G5209G4160G1343G2076G1342G2531G1565G2076G13428the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, that He might destroy the works of the devil.G4160G266G2076G1537G1228G3754G1228G264G575G746G1519G5124G5207G2316G5319G2443G3089G2041G12289No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.G3956G1080G1537G2316G4160G3756G266G3754G846G4690G3306G1722G846G2532G3756G1410G264G3754G1080G1537G231610By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother.G1722G5129G5043G2316G2076G5318G2532G5043G1228G3956G4160G3361G1343G2076G3756G1537G2316G2532G25G3361G846G8011For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;G3754G3778G2076G31G3739G191G575G746G2443G25G24012not as Cain, [who] was of the evil one, and slew his brother. And for what reason did he slay him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother's were righteous.G3756G2531G2535G2258G1537G4190G2532G4969G846G80G2532G5484G5101G4969G846G3754G846G2041G2258G4190G1161G846G80G134213Do not marvel, brethren, if the world hates you.G2296G3361G3450G80G1487G2889G3404G520914We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love abides in death.G1492G3754G2249G3327G1537G2288G1519G2222G3754G25G80G25G3361G80G3306G1722G228815Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer; and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.G3956G3404G846G80G2076G443G2532G1492G3754G3756G3956G443G2192G166G2222G3306G1722G84616We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.G1722G5129G1097G26G3754G1565G5087G846G5590G5228G2257G2532G2249G3784G5087G5590G5228G8017But whoever has the world's goods, and beholds his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him?G1161G3739G302G2192G2889G979G2532G2334G846G80G2192G5532G2532G2808G846G4698G575G846G4459G3306G26G2316G1722G84618Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.G3450G5040G25G3361G25G3056G3366G1100G235G2041G2532G22519We shall know by this that we are of the truth, and shall assure our heart before Him,G2532G1722G5129G1097G3754G2070G1537G225G2532G3982G2257G2588G1715G84620in whatever our heart condemns us; for God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.G3754G1437G2257G2588G2607G3754G2316G2076G3187G2257G2588G2532G1097G395621Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God;G27G3362G2257G2588G2607G2257G3362G2192G3954G4314G231622and whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight.G2532G3739G1437G154G2983G3844G846G3754G5083G846G1785G2532G4160G701G846G179923And this is His commandment, that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He commanded us.G2532G3778G2076G846G1785G2443G4100G3686G846G5207G2424G5547G2532G25G240G2531G1325G2254G178524And the one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And we know by this that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.G2532G5083G846G1785G3306G1722G846G2532G846G1722G846G2532G1722G5129G1097G3754G3306G1722G2254G1537G4151G3739G1325G2254
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