¹See ¹^ahow great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called ^bchildren of God; and such 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 appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He ^dappears, 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 practices sin also practices lawlessness; and ^asin is lawlessness.

⁵You know that He ^aappeared 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^bknows Him.

⁷^aLittle children, make sure no one ^bdeceives you; ^cthe one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous;

⁸the one who practices sin is ^aof the devil; for the devil ¹has sinned from the beginning. ^bThe Son of God ^cappeared for this purpose, ^dto destroy the works of the devil.

⁹No one who is ¹^aborn of God ^bpractices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

¹⁰By this the ^achildren of God and the ^bchildren of the devil are obvious: ¹anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who ^cdoes not love his ^dbrother.

¹¹^aFor this is the message ^bwhich you have heard from the beginning, ^cthat we should love one another;

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 what kind of love
1Or has known
1Lit sins
1Or begotten
1Lit everyone

Cross references

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
a 1 John 1:5
b 1 John 2:7
c John 13:4f; 15:12; 1 John 4:7, 11f, 21; 2 John 5