1 John 3

¹See what love the Father has given to us, that we should be called [the] children of God. For this reason the world knows us not, because it knew him not.

²Beloved, now are we children of God, and what we shall be has not yet been manifested; we know that if it is manifested we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

³And every one that has this hope in him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

⁴Every one that practises sin practises also lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.

⁵And ye know that he has been manifested that he might take away our sins; and in him sin is not.

⁶Whoever abides in him, does not sin: whoever sins, has not seen him or known him.

⁷Children, let no man lead you astray; he that practises righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

⁸He that practises sin is of the devil; for from [the] beginning the devil sins. To this end the Son of God has been manifested, that he might undo the works of the devil.

⁹Whoever has been begotten of God does not practise sin, because his seed abides in him, and he cannot sin, because he has been begotten of God.

¹⁰In this are manifest the children of God and the children of the devil. Whoever does not practise righteousness is not of God, and he who does not love his brother.

¹¹For this is the message which ye have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another:

¹²not as Cain was of the wicked one, and slew his brother; and on account of what slew he him? because his works were wicked, and those of his brother righteous.