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1 John 3:23

First Nations Version

This is his instruction to us, that we trust in the name of his Son, Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One, and love each other as he taught us to do.

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“I am giving you a new road to walk,” he said. “In the same way I have loved you, you are to love each other.


You have purified your souls by fully following the truth. Now your love for each other can come from a true heart. So keep loving each other in this way.


“To walk the road with me, you must love each other in the same way I have loved you.


“Here is what he wants you to do,” he answered, “put your trust in the one he has sent.”


Above all, never stop loving each other, for like a warm blanket love covers a great number of broken ways.


The message you heard from the beginning was that we should love each other.


And from him we have been given this instruction: the ones who love the Great Spirit must also love the members of his family.


There is no need for us to instruct you about the love we share as sacred family members. Creator himself has taught you how to love each other.


Walk the road of love, following the path of the Chosen One, who loved us and offered up his life to the Great Spirit like the smoke of burning sage.


Then, from above, a bright cloud came down around them and a voice spoke out from the cloud, “This is my Son, my Much Loved One. He is the one who speaks for me now. Listen to him!”


“The second is like the first,” he added. “‘You must love your fellow human beings in the same way you love yourselves.’


“Put your trust in Creator Sets Free (Jesus), our Honored Chief,” they said to him. “He will make you whole and set you and all your family free to follow him.”


This life comes from knowing you, the only true and Great Spirit, and from knowing the Chosen One, Creator Sets Free (Jesus), the one you have sent into this world.


“Do not let your hearts fall to the ground,” he encouraged them. “Trust in the Great Spirit, and trust in me.


Here is a saying that you can be sure of: Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One came into this world to set bad-hearted people free from their broken ways—and I am the worst one of all.


But all who welcome and trust him receive their birthright as children of the Great Spirit.


During the Passover festival many people began to believe in him because they saw the powerful miracles he was performing.


“The ones who trust in him are released from their guilt, but, for the ones who turn away from him to follow the ways of this world, their guilt remains. This is because they are turning away from the life of beauty and harmony the Great Spirit offers through his Son.


My much-loved friends, I am not giving you a new teaching but an old one, the same one you were given at first. The old teaching is the message you have heard.


Those who tell others that Creator Sets Free (Jesus) is the Son of the Great Spirit are the ones Creator lives in, and they live in him.


I have written these things to you who trust in the name of Creator’s Son, so that you may know you have the life of the world to come that never fades away, full of beauty and harmony.





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