riversident 1John:2:28-3:10
riversident@1John:2:28 @ And now, little children, remain in him so that if he appears we may have confidence and not shrink in shame from him at his coming.
riversident@1John:2:29 @ If you know that he is righteous, you know that every one who does righteousness has been born of him.
riversident@1John:3:1 @ SEE what love the Father has bestowed on us that we should be called children of God. And so we are. The reason why tho world does not know us is that it did not know him.
riversident@1John:3:2 @ Beloved, we are now children of God and it is not yet plain what we shall be. But we know that if he appears we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
riversident@1John:3:3 @ And every one who has this hope set upon Christ purifies himself just as Christ is pure.
riversident@1John:3:4 @ Every one who commits sin commits also lawlessness; for sin is lawlessness.
riversident@1John:3:5 @ You know that Christ appeared to take away sins and in him there is no sin.
riversident@1John:3:6 @ Whoever remains in him does not sin; whoever sins has not seen him nor known him.
riversident@1John:3:7 @ Little children, let no one deceive you. He who is doing righteousness is righteous as Christ is righteous.
riversident@1John:3:8 @ He who is committing sin is of the Devil, for the Devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this the Son of God appeared \'97 to undo the works of the Devil.
riversident@1John:3:9 @ No one who has been born of God commits sin, for God's life-giving germ remains in him and he cannot continue sinning, because he has been born of God.
riversident@1John:3:10 @ By this the children of God are plain to see, also the children of the Devil. Every one who is not doing righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.