New American Standard Bible 1995

1 John 3:3-17

3And everyone who has this 1hope fixed on Him 2purifies himself, just as He is pure.

4Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and 3sin is lawlessness. 5You know that He 4appeared in order to 5take away sins; and 6in Him there is no sin. 6No one who abides in Him 7sins; no one who sins has seen Him or 8 9knows Him. 7 10Little children, make sure no one 11deceives you; 12the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous; 8the one who practices sin is 13of the devil; for the devil 14has sinned from the beginning. 15The Son of God 16appeared for this purpose, 17to destroy the works of the devil. 9No one who is 18 19born of God 20practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is 21born of God. 10By this the 22children of God and the 23children of the devil are obvious: 24anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who 25does not love his 26brother.

11 27For this is the message 28which you have heard from the beginning, 29that we should love one another; 12not as 30Cain, who was of 31the evil one and slew his brother. And for what reason did he slay him? Because 32his deeds were evil, and his brother’s were righteous.

13Do not be surprised, brethren, if 33the world hates you. 14We know that we have 34passed out of death into life, 35because we love the brethren. He who does not love abides in death. 15Everyone who 36hates his brother is a murderer; and you know that 37no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. 16We know love by this, that 38He laid down His life for us; and 39we ought to lay down our lives for the 40brethren. 17But 41whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need and 42closes his 43heart 44against him, 45how does the love of God abide in him?

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Notes

1. 1 John 3:3 Rom 15:12; 1 Pet 1:3 ↩
2. 1 John 3:3 John 17:19; 2 Cor 7:1 ↩
3. 1 John 3:4 Rom 4:15; 1 John 5:17 ↩
4. 1 John 3:5 1 John 1:2; 3:8 ↩
5. 1 John 3:5 John 1:29; 1 Pet 1:18-20; 1 John 2:2 ↩
6. 1 John 3:5 2 Cor 5:21; 1 John 2:29 ↩
7. 1 John 3:6 1 John 3:9 ↩
8. 1 John 3:6 Or has known ↩
9. 1 John 3:6 1 John 2:3; 3 John 11 ↩
10. 1 John 3:7 1 John 2:1 ↩
11. 1 John 3:7 1 John 2:26 ↩
12. 1 John 3:7 1 John 2:29 ↩
13. 1 John 3:8 Matt 13:38; John 8:44; 1 John 3:10 ↩
14. 1 John 3:8 Lit sins ↩
15. 1 John 3:8 Matt 4:3 ↩
16. 1 John 3:8 1 John 3:5 ↩
17. 1 John 3:8 John 12:31; 16:11 ↩
18. 1 John 3:9 Or begotten ↩
19. 1 John 3:9 John 1:13; 3:3; 1 John 2:29; 4:7; 5:1, 4, 18; 3 John 11 ↩
20. 1 John 3:9 1 Pet 1:23; 1 John 3:6; 5:18 ↩
21. 1 John 3:9 Or begotten ↩
22. 1 John 3:10 John 1:12; 11:52; Rom 8:16; 1 John 3:1, 2 ↩
23. 1 John 3:10 Matt 13:38; John 8:44; 1 John 3:8 ↩
24. 1 John 3:10 Lit everyone ↩
25. 1 John 3:10 Rom 13:8ff; Col 3:14; 1 Tim 1:5; 1 John 4:8 ↩
26. 1 John 3:10 1 John 2:9 ↩
27. 1 John 3:11 1 John 1:5 ↩
28. 1 John 3:11 1 John 2:7 ↩
29. 1 John 3:11 John 13:4f; 15:12; 1 John 4:7, 11f, 21; 2 John 5 ↩
30. 1 John 3:12 Gen 4:8 ↩
31. 1 John 3:12 Matt 5:37; 1 John 2:13f ↩
32. 1 John 3:12 Ps 38:20; Prov 29:10; John 8:40, 41 ↩
33. 1 John 3:13 John 15:18; 17:14 ↩
34. 1 John 3:14 John 5:24 ↩
35. 1 John 3:14 John 13:35; 1 John 2:10 ↩
36. 1 John 3:15 Matt 5:21f; John 8:44 ↩
37. 1 John 3:15 Gal 5:20f; Rev 21:8 ↩
38. 1 John 3:16 John 10:11; 15:13 ↩
39. 1 John 3:16 Phil 2:17; 1 Thess 2:8 ↩
40. 1 John 3:16 1 John 2:9 ↩
41. 1 John 3:17 James 2:15f ↩
42. 1 John 3:17 Deut 15:7 ↩
43. 1 John 3:17 Lit inward parts ↩
44. 1 John 3:17 Lit from ↩
45. 1 John 3:17 1 John 4:20 ↩

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