and who never do wrong or turn from you.
We are sure God's children do not keep on sinning. God's own Son protects them, and the devil cannot harm them.
God's children cannot keep on being sinful. His life-giving power lives in them and makes them his children, so they cannot keep on sinning.
And if they obey, they will be successful and happy from then on.
Instead, I told them, “If you listen to me and do what I tell you, I will be your God, you will be my people, and all will go well for you.”
and refuses to do anything evil or to charge interest. And he obeys all my laws and teachings. Such a man will live. His own father sinned, but this good man will not be put to death for the sins of his father.
