3 See what great loveC the Father has given us that we should be called God’s children—and we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it didn’t know him. 2 Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed.t We know that when he appears,D we will be like himu because we will see him as he is.v 3 And everyone who has this hopew in him purifies himself just as he is pure.x