1John:3

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* Behold what manner of love the Father has given us in allowing us to be called "Children of God !" And that is what we are . For this reason the world does not recognize us , because it did not know him . * We are Gods children now , beloved ; what we shall be has never yet been made manifest . But we know that when he is manifested we shall be like him ; for we shall see him even as he is . * And every one who is holding this hope in him is purifying himself , even as he is pure . * Every one who commits sin commits also lawlessness . Sin is lawlessness . * And you know that he was manifested to take away sins ; and in him is no sin . * Whoever continually abides in him does not habitually sin ; whoever lives in sin has not seen him , nor come to know him . * My children , let no one deceive you ; he who is working righteousness is righteous , just as he is righteous . * He who is committing sin is of the devil , because from the beginning of the devil is sinning . It was for this cause that the Son of God was manifested , that he might destroy the works of the devil . * Whoever is a child of God cannot go on sinning , because his seed is abiding in him ; and he cannot go on sinning because he is a child of God . * In this the children of God are manifest , and the children of the devil ; for every one who does not work righteousness is not a child of God , nor is he who does not love his brother . * For this is the message that you have listened to from the beginning , "WE ARE TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER ." * We are not to be like Cain , who belonged to the Evil One , and murdered his brother . And why did he murder him ? It was because his own deeds were evil , and his brothers , righteous . * Do not wonder , brothers , if the world continues to hate you . * We know that we have migrated , out of death into life , because we love our brothers . He who has no love is abiding in death . * Every one who is hating his brother is a murderer , and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him . * By this we learn to know love , because he laid down his life for us ; so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers . * But whoever has this worlds goods , and beholds his brother in need , and shuts up his heart against him , how can the love of God continue to abide in him ? * My children , let us not love in word nor in talk , but in deed and in truth . * By this we shall come to know that we are really of the truth , * and shall persuade our heart in his presence whenever our heart condemns us , because God is greater than our heart and knows all things . * Beloved , if our heart condemn us not , we have confidence toward God , * and whatever we ask we are receiving from him , because we are keeping his commandments and doing those things that are pleasing in his sight . * His commandment is this , that we should believe in the name of his Son , Jesus Christ , and love one another as he has commanded us to do . * He who keeps his commandments is abiding in Him , and Christ in him . By this we know that Christ is abiding in us , by the Spirit which he has given us .

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