Chapter 3
1See what kind of love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God—and so we are. The world does not know us because it did not know him.
2Beloved, now we are children of God, and what we shall be has not yet been revealed. We know that when he is revealed we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.
3And everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself just as that one is pure.
4Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.
5And you know that he was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.
6No one who abides in him sins; no one who sins has either seen him or known him.
7Children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, just as he is righteous.
8Whoever practices sin is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The Son of God was revealed for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil.
9No one born of God practices sin, because his seed remains in him; he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.
10By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.
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Abiding in Christ: Children of God and Righteous Living
1 John 2:28-3:10
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