⁸He that committeth sin is of the devil: for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God appeared, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

⁹Whosoever is born of God committeth not sin: for his seed abideth in him. And he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

¹⁰In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil. Whosoever is not just is not of God, or he that loveth not his brother.

¹¹For this is the declaration which you have heard from the beginning, that you should love one another.

¹²Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one and killed his brother. And wherefore did he kill him? Because his own works were wicked: and his brother’s just.

¹³Wonder not, brethren, if the world hate you.

¹⁴We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not abideth in death.

¹⁵Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer. And you know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in himself.

¹⁶In this we have known the charity of God, because he hath laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

¹⁷He that hath the substance of this world and shall see his brother in need and shall shut up his bowels from him: how doth the charity of God abide in him?

¹⁸My little children, let us not love in word nor in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

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1 John 3:16: By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

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