1John:3

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* See how much the Father has loved us ! We are called Gods children . It is true , we are Gods children . People in this world did not know him and so they do not know us . * My dear brothers , we are Gods children now . No one knows yet what we shall be like . But we know that when Jesus comes , we will be like him . We will see him as he really is . * Everyone who has this hope about Christ makes his life holy . He makes his life holy and clean , just as Christ is holy . * Everyone who does wrong things is breaking Gods law . Doing wrong things is breaking the law . * You know that Christ came to take away the wrong things people have done . He is the one who has done no wrong . * Everyone who stays with him does not do wrong things . Everyone who does wrong things has never seen him and has never known him . * My children , do not let anyone fool you . Anyone who does what is good , is good just as Christ is good . * Anyone who does what is wrong belongs to the devil . The devil has done what is wrong from the beginning . That is why Gods Son came . He came to stop what the devil does . * No one who is Gods child does wrong things , because Gods life is in him . And he cannot keep on doing wrong things , because he is Gods child . * This is how people can know who are Gods children and who are the devils children . Everyone who does not do right is not Gods child . And anyone who does not love his brother is not Gods child . * This is the word you have heard from the beginning . We must love one another . * We must not be like Cain . He was a child of the devil and killed his brother . Why did he kill him ? He killed him because the things he himself did were wrong , and the things his brother did were right with God . * My brothers , do not be surprised if people in this world hate you . * We know that we have gone from death to life . We know this because we love the Christian brothers . Anyone who does not love them has not gone from death to life . * Everyone who hates his brother is like a man who kills a person . And you know that no one who kills a person has life that will live for ever . * Christ died for us . That is how we know what love is . We also should be willing to die for our brothers . * Perhaps a man has plenty of food and things . He sees that his brother needs some . If he does not want to help his brother , does he love God ? * My children , we must not only talk about loving people ; we must show we love people by what we do for them . We must really love them . * And this is how we will know that we are true . This is why we will not be afraid in front of God . * Even if our hearts think we are wrong , God is greater than our hearts and he knows everything . * My dear brothers , if our hearts do not think we are wrong , we will not be afraid in front of God . * If we ask God for something , we get it . We get it because we obey his laws . We get it because we do what pleases him . * This is his law . We must believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ . And we must love one another as he told us to do . * If anyone obeys his laws , he belongs to God and God belongs to him . God has given us the Holy Spirit . That is how we know that God is with us .

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