1 John 3

¹See what manner of charity the Father hath given us, that we should be named and be the sons of God. For this cause the world doth not know us, because it hath not known him.

²My dearest, now we are the sons of God; & it hath not yet appeared what we shall be. We know that when he shall appear, we shall be like to him: because we shall see him as he is.

³And every one that hath this hope in him, sanctifieth himself, as he also is holy.

⁴Every one that committeth sin, committeth also iniquity: and sin is iniquity.

⁵And you know that he appeared to take away our sins: and sin in him there is none.

⁶Every one that abideth in him, sinneth not: and every one that sinneth, hath not seen him, nor known him.

⁷Little children, let no man seduce you. He that doeth justice, is just: even as he also is just.

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

⁹Every one that is born of God, committeth not sin: because his seed abideth in him, and he cannot sin because he is born of God.

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

¹¹Because this is the annunciation, which you have heard from the beginning, That you love one another.

¹²Not as Cain, who was of the wicked, and killed his brother. And for what cause killed he him? Because his works were wicked: but his brother's, just.

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

¹⁴We know that we are translated 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 life everlasting abiding in himself.

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

¹⁷He that shall have the substance of the world, and shall see his brother have need, and shall shut 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 truth.

¹⁹In this we know that we are of the truth: and in his sight we shall persuade our hearts.

²⁰For if our heart do reprehend us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.

²¹My dearest, if our heart do not reprehend us, we have confidence toward God.

²²And whatsoever we shall ask, we shall receive of him: because we keep his commandments, and do those things which are pleasing before him.

²³And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ: and love one another, as he hath given commandment unto us.

²⁴And he that keepeth his commandments, abideth in him, and he in him. And in this we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.