Abiding in Christ: Children of God and Righteous Living
1 John 2:28-3:10
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Chapter 2
28And now, little children, abide in him, so that if he should be manifested, we may have boldness and not be put to shame before him at his Parousia.29If you know that he is righteous, know that everyone who does righteousness has been born of him.
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Chapter 3
1See what sort of love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God—and so we are. Because of this, the world does not know us, because it did not know him.2Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when he is revealed, we will be like him, because we will see him as he is.3And everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure.4Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.5And you know that he was manifested in order that he might take away the sins, and sin is not in him.6Everyone who remains in him does not sin. Everyone who sins has not seen him nor known him.7Little children, let no one deceive you; the one doing righteousness is righteous, just as he is righteous.8The one who does sin is of the devil, because the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.9Everyone who has been begotten from God does not do sin, because his seed remains in him, and he is not able to sin, because he has been begotten from God.10In this it is manifest who are the children of God and the children of the devil: everyone who does not do righteousness is not from God, and the one who does not love his brother.