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1 John 3:10

James Moffatt - New Testament

Here is how the children of God and the children of the devil are recognized; anyone who does not practise righteousness does not belong to God, and neither does he who has no love for his brother.

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he who does not love, does not know God, for God is love.

Beloved, do not imitate evil but good; he who does good belongs to God, he who does evil has never seen God.

And we get this command from him, that he who loves God is to love his brother as well.

You belong to your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires; he was a slayer of men from the very beginning, and he has no place in the truth because there is no truth in him: when he tells a lie, he is expressing his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

the field is the world; the good seed means the sons of the Realm; the weeds are the sons of the evil one;

He who belongs to God listens to the words of God; you do not listen to them, because you do not belong to God."

No, you must love your enemies and help them, you must lend to them without expecting any return; then you will have a rich reward, you will be sons of the Most High for he is kind even to the ungrateful and the evil.

we belong to God — he who knows God listens to us, he who does not belong to God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

Copy God, then, as his beloved children,

This is how we are sure that we love God's children, by loving God and obeying his commands

As you know he is just, be sure that everyone who practises righteousness is born of him.

and said, "You son of the devil, you enemy of all good, full of all craft and all cunning, will you never stop diverting the straight paths of the Lord?

We know that we belong to God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil One.

On those who have accepted him, however, he has conferred the right of being children of God, that is, on those who believe in his Name,

and not merely for the nation but to gather into one the scattered children of God.)

Be in debt to no man — apart from the debt of love one to another. He who loves his fellow-man has fulfilled the law.

And above all you must be loving, for love is the link of the perfect life.

Whereas the aim of the Christian discipline is the love that springs from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from a sincere faith.

'Born of him!' Think what a love the Father has for us, in letting us be called 'children of God!' That is what we are. The world does not recognize us? That is simply because it did not recognize him.

We are children of God now, beloved; what we are to be is not apparent yet, but we do know that when he appears, we are to be like him — for we are to see him as he is.




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