1 John 3:9-24

9Whoever has been begotten of 1God does not practise sin, because his seed abides in him, and he cannot sin, because he has been begotten of 2God. 10In this are manifest the children of 3God and the children of the devil. Whoever does not practise righteousness is not of 4God, and he who does not love his brother. 11For this is the message which ye have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another: 12not as Cain was of the wicked one, and slew his brother; and on account of what slew he him? because his works were wicked, and those of his brother righteous. 13Do not wonder, brethren, if the world hate you. 14We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love [his] brother abides in death. 15Every one that hates his brother is a murderer, and ye know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. 16Hereby we have known love, because he has laid down his life for us; and we ought for the brethren to lay down [our] lives. 17But whoso may have the world's substance, and see his brother having need, and shut up his bowels from him, how abides the love of 5God in him? 18Children, let us not love with word, nor with tongue, but in deed and in truth. 19And hereby we shall know that we are of the truth, and shall persuade our hearts before him — 20that if our heart condemn us, 6God is greater than our heart and knows all things. 21Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have boldness towards 7God, 22and whatsoever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments, and practise the things which are pleasing in his sight. 23And this is his commandment, that we believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and that we love one another, even as he has given us commandment. 24And he that keeps his commandments abides in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit which he has given to us.