Then you will enjoy God All-Powerful.\par Then you will look up to God.\par
1 John 3:21 - Easy To Read Version My dear friends, if we don’t feel that we are doing wrong, then we can be without fear (have confidence) when we come to God. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And, beloved, if our consciences (our hearts) do not accuse us [if they do not make us feel guilty and condemn us], we have confidence (complete assurance and boldness) before God, American Standard Version (1901) Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have boldness toward God; Common English Bible Dear friends, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have confidence in relationship to God. Catholic Public Domain Version Most beloved, if our heart does not reproach us, we can have confidence toward God; Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Dearly beloved, if our heart do not reprehend us, we have confidence towards God: |
Then you will enjoy God All-Powerful.\par Then you will look up to God.\par
I will hold tightly\par to the right things I did.\par I will never stop living right.\par My conscience will never bother me\par as long as I live.\par
I will carefully live a pure life.\par I will live a pure life in my house.\par Lord, when will you come to me?\par
I don’t know of any wrong that I have done. But that does not make me innocent (without guilt). The Lord is the One who judges me.
This is what we are proud of, and I can say with all my heart that it is true: In all the things we have done in the world, we have done everything with an honest and pure heart from God. And this is even more true in the things we have done with you. We did this by God’s grace (kindness), not by the kind of wisdom the world has.
In Christ we can come before God with freedom and without fear. We can do this through faith in Christ.
I want men everywhere to pray. These men who lift up their hands in prayer must be pleasing to God. They must not be men who become angry and have arguments.
We have been cleansed and made free from feelings of guilt. And our bodies have been washed with pure water. So come near to God with a sincere (true) heart, feeling sure because of our faith.
Who were those people who heard God’s voice and were against him? It was all those people that Moses led out of Egypt.
Yes, my dear children, live in him. If we do this, we can be without fear (have confidence) on the day when Christ comes back. We will not need to hide and be ashamed when he comes.
My dear friends, I am not writing a new command to you. It is the same command you have had since the beginning. This command is the teaching you have already heard.
Dear friends, now we are children of God. We have not yet been shown what we will be in the future. But we know that when Christ comes again, we will be like him. We will see him like he really is.
If God’s love is made perfect in us, then we can be without fear on the day when God judges us. We will be without fear, because in this world we are like him (Christ or God).