1 John 3:1–11

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 3}And 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,^Cy and there is no sin in him.^{z 6}Everyone who remains in him^aa does not sin;^Dab 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

LOVE IN ACTION

¹¹For this is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another,