⁸The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this reason the Son of God was revealed: in order to destroy the works of the devil. ⁹Everyone who is fathered by God does not practice sin, because his seed resides in him, and he is not able to sin, because he has been fathered by God. ¹⁰By this the children of God and the children of the devil are evident: everyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, namely, the one who does not love his brother.

God is Love, so Love One Another

¹¹For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another, ¹²not as Cain, who was of the evil one and violently murdered his brother. And for what reason^a did he violently murder him? Because his deeds were evil and the deeds of his brother were righteous.

¹³Do not marvel,^b brothers, if the world hates you. ¹⁴We know that we have passed over from death to life because we love the brothers. The one who does not love remains in death. ¹⁵Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that every murderer does not have eternal life residing in him.

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Footnotes

aLiterally “on account of what”
bSome manuscripts have “And do not marvel”