tcent - 1John:2:28-3:10

tcent@1John:2:28 @ And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

tcent@1John:2:29 @ If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who does right is born of him.

tcent@1John:3:1 @ See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God! And so we are! The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

tcent@1John:3:2 @ Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

tcent@1John:3:3 @ And everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure.

tcent@1John:3:4 @ Everyone who commits sin also commits lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.

tcent@1John:3:5 @ And you know that he appeared to take away our sins, and in him there is no sin.

tcent@1John:3:6 @ No one who abides in him sins. No one who sins has either seen him or known him.

tcent@1John:3:7 @ Little children, let no one deceive you. He who does right is righteous, just as he is righteous.

tcent@1John:3:8 @ He who commits sin is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.

tcent@1John:3:9 @ No one who is of God practices sin, for Gods seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.

tcent@1John:3:10 @ By this it may be seen who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not do right is not of God, nor he who does not love his brother.