²⁸So now, little children, remain in him so that when he appears^p we may have confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming.^q ²⁹If you know that he is righteous, you know this as well: Everyone who does what is right has been born of him.^r^s 3See what great love^A 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. ²Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed.^t We know that when he appears,^B we will be like him^u because we will see him as he is.^v ³And everyone who has this hope^w in him purifies himself just as he is pure.^x

⁴Everyone who commits sin practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness. ⁵You know that he was revealed so that he might take away sins,^C^y and there is no sin in him.^z ⁶Everyone who remains in him^aa does not sin;^D^ab everyone who sins^E has not seen him or known him.

⁷Little children, let no one deceive you. The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. ⁸The one who commits^F sin is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God^ac was revealed^ad for this purpose: to destroy the devil’s works. ⁹Everyone who has been born of God^ae does not sin,^G because his seed^af remains in him; he is not able to sin,^H because he has been born of God. ¹⁰This is how God’s children and the devil’s children become obvious. Whoever does not do what is right is not of God, especially the one who does not love his brother or sister.^ag

Read in Logos

1 John 3:1: See what kind of love the Father has given to 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.

Footnotes

AOr what sort of love
BOr when it appears
COther read our sins
DOr not keep on sinning
EOr who keeps on sinning
FOr practices
GOr not practice sin
HOr to keep on sinning

Cross references

p Lk 17:30; Col 3:4; 1Jn 3:2
q 1Th 2:19
r Gn 18:19; Dt 6:18; 1Jn 3:7,10
s Jn 1:12–13; 3:3–7; 8:41; 1Jn 3:9; 4:7; 5:1,4,18
t 2Co 4:11; 1Pt 5:4; 1Jn 2:28
u Rm 8:29; 1Co 15:49; 2Co 3:18; Php 3:21; 2Pt 1:4
v 1Co 13:12; Heb 12:14; Rv 22:4
w Ac 23:6; 1Th 1:3
x Php 4:8
y Jn 1:29; 1Co 15:3; Heb 10:4; 1Pt 2:24
z 2Co 5:21; Heb 4:15; 7:26; 1Pt 2:21–22; 3:18; 1Jn 2:29
aa Jn 15:4–7; 1Jn 2:6,24,27–28; 3:24; 4:13,15–16
ab Rm 6:11–12; 1Jn 2:29; 5:18
ac Mk 1:11
ad Jn 21:1; 2Co 4:11; 1Pt 5:4; 1Jn 5:20
ae 1Jn 2:29
af 1Pt 1:23
ag 1Jn 2:10; 3:14–17; 4:20–21