³See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God, and that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. ²Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed. What we do know is this: when he^j is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him as he is.^* ³And all who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.

⁴Everyone who commits sin is guilty of lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.^* ⁵You know that he was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.^* ⁶No one who abides in him sins; no one who sins has either seen him or known him. ⁷Little children,^k let no one deceive you. Everyone who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. ⁸Everyone who commits sin is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The Son of God was revealed for this purpose: to destroy the works of the devil.^* ⁹Those who have been born of God do not sin because God’s seed abides in them;^l they cannot sin because they have been born of God.^* ¹⁰The children of God and the children of the devil are revealed in this way: all who do not do what is right are not from God, nor are those who do not love a brother or sister.^*

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

jOr it
kOther ancient authorities read Children
lOr because the children of God abide in him

Cross references

*Mk 8:38; 1 Thess 2:19; 1 Jn 3:2, 21; 4:17
*1 Jn 3:7, 9; 4:7
*Rom 8:15, 29; 2 Cor 3:18; 4:17; 2 Pet 1:4
*Rom 4:15; 1 Jn 5:17
*Isa 53:5, 6; 2 Cor 5:21
*Jn 8:44; 16:11; Heb 2:14
*1 Pet 1:23; 1 Jn 5:18
*1 Jn 2:29