1 John 3 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹ See what great love  the Father has given us that we should be called God’s children #– #and we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it didn’t know him.

² Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed.  We know that when he appears,  we will be like him  because we will see him as he is.

³ And everyone who has this hope  in him purifies himself just as he is pure.

⁴ Everyone who commits sin practises lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.

⁵ You know that he was revealed so that he might take away sins,  , and there is no sin in him.

⁶ Everyone who remains in him  does not sin;  , everyone who sins  has not seen him or known him.

⁷ Little children, let no one deceive you. The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous.

⁸ The one who commits  sin is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God  was revealed  for this purpose: to destroy the devil’s works.

⁹ Everyone who has been born of God  does not sin,  because his seed  remains in him; he is not able to sin,  because he has been born of God.

¹⁰ This is how God’s children and the devil’s children become obvious. Whoever does not do what is right is not of God, especially the one who does not love his brother or sister.

Love in Action

¹¹ For this is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another,

¹² unlike Cain,  who was of the evil one  and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s were righteous.

¹³ Do not be surprised, brothers and sisters, if the world hates  you.

¹⁴ We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers and sisters. The one who does not love remains in death.

¹⁵ Everyone who hates his brother or sister  is a murderer,  and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.

¹⁶ This is how we have come to know love: He laid down his life  for us.  We should also lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.

¹⁷ If anyone has this world’s goods  and sees a fellow believer  in need  but withholds compassion  from him #– #how does God’s love reside in him?

¹⁸ Little children, let us not love in word or speech, but in action and in truth.

¹⁹ This is how we will know that we belong to the truth  and will reassure our hearts before him

²⁰ whenever our hearts condemn us; for God is greater than our hearts, and he knows all things.

²¹ Dear friends, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have confidence before God

²² and receive whatever we ask from him because we keep his commands  and do what is pleasing in his sight.

²³ Now this is his command: that we believe in the name  of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another as he commanded us.

²⁴ The one who keeps his commands remains in him,  and he in him. And the way we know that he remains in us  is from the Spirit  he has given us.