²⁸And now, ^alittle children, abide in Him, so that when He ^bis manifested, we may have ^cconfidence and ^dnot ¹shrink away from Him in shame ²at His ^ecoming.

²⁹If you know that ^aHe is righteous, you know that everyone also who does righteousness ^bhas been ¹born of Him.

CHAPTER 3

Children of God, Love One Another

¹See ¹^ahow great a love the Father has given to us, that we would be called ^bchildren of God; and we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because ^cit did not know Him.

²^aBeloved, now we are ^bchildren of God, and ^cit has not been manifested as yet what we will be. We know that when He ^dis manifested, we will be ^elike Him, because we will ^fsee Him just as He is.

³And everyone who has this ^ahope fixed on Him ^bpurifies himself, just as He is pure.

⁴Everyone who does sin also does lawlessness; and ^asin is lawlessness.

⁵And you know that He ^awas manifested in order to ^btake away sins, and ^cin Him there is no sin.

⁶No one who abides in Him ^asins; no one who sins has seen Him or ¹^bhas come to know Him.

⁷^aLittle children, let no one ^bdeceive you. ^cThe one who does righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous.

⁸The one who does sin is ^aof the devil, because the devil sins from the beginning. ^bThe Son of God ^cwas manifested for this purpose, ^dto destroy the works of the devil.

⁹Everyone who has been ¹^aborn of God ^bdoes not sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been ²born of God.

¹⁰By this the ^achildren of God and the ^bchildren of the devil are manifested: everyone who does not do righteousness is not of God, as well as the one who ^cdoes not love his ^dbrother.

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

1Lit be put to shame from Him
2Or in His presence
1Or begotten
1Lit what kind of love
1Or has known
1Or begotten
2Or begotten

Cross references

a 1 John 2:1
b Luke 17:30; Col 3:4; 1 John 3:2
c Eph 3:12; 1 John 3:21; 4:17; 5:14
d Mark 8:38
e 1 Thess 2:19
a John 7:18; 1 John 3:7
b John 1:13; 3:3; 1 John 3:9; 4:7; 5:1, 4, 18; 3 John 11
a John 3:16; 1 John 4:10
b John 1:12; 11:52; Rom 8:16; 1 John 3:2, 10
c John 15:18, 21; 16:3
a 1 John 2:7
b John 1:12; 11:52; Rom 8:16; 1 John 3:1, 10
c Rom 8:19, 23f
d Luke 17:30; Col 3:4; 1 John 2:28
e Rom 8:29; 2 Pet 1:4
f John 17:24; 2 Cor 3:18
a Rom 15:12; 1 Pet 1:3
b John 17:19; 2 Cor 7:1
a Rom 4:15; 1 John 5:17
a 1 John 1:2; 3:8
b John 1:29; 1 Pet 1:18–20; 1 John 2:2
c 2 Cor 5:21; 1 John 2:29
a 1 John 3:9
b 1 John 2:3; 3 John 11
a 1 John 2:1
b 1 John 2:26
c 1 John 2:29
a Matt 13:38; John 8:44; 1 John 3:10
b Matt 4:3
c 1 John 3:5
d John 12:31; 16:11
a John 1:13; 3:3; 1 John 2:29; 4:7; 5:1, 4, 18; 3 John 11
b 1 Pet 1:23; 1 John 3:6; 5:18
a John 1:12; 11:52; Rom 8:16; 1 John 3:1, 2
b Matt 13:38; John 8:44; 1 John 3:8
c Rom 13:8ff; Col 3:14; 1 Tim 1:5; 1 John 4:8
d 1 John 2:9