New American Standard Bible 1995

1 John 3:4-19

4Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and 1sin is lawlessness. 5You know that He 2appeared in order to 3take away sins; and 4in Him there is no sin. 6No one who abides in Him 5sins; no one who sins has seen Him or 6 7knows Him. 7 8Little children, make sure no one 9deceives you; 10the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous; 8the one who practices sin is 11of the devil; for the devil 12has sinned from the beginning. 13The Son of God 14appeared for this purpose, 15to destroy the works of the devil. 9No one who is 16 17born of God 18practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is 19born of God. 10By this the 20children of God and the 21children of the devil are obvious: 22anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who 23does not love his 24brother.

11 25For this is the message 26which you have heard from the beginning, 27that we should love one another; 12not as 28Cain, who was of 29the evil one and slew his brother. And for what reason did he slay him? Because 30his deeds were evil, and his brother’s were righteous.

13Do not be surprised, brethren, if 31the world hates you. 14We know that we have 32passed out of death into life, 33because we love the brethren. He who does not love abides in death. 15Everyone who 34hates his brother is a murderer; and you know that 35no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. 16We know love by this, that 36He laid down His life for us; and 37we ought to lay down our lives for the 38brethren. 17But 39whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need and 40closes his 41heart 42against him, 43how does the love of God abide in him? 18 44Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and 45truth. 19We will know by this that we are 46of the truth, and will 47assure our heart before Him

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Notes

1. 1 John 3:4 Rom 4:15; 1 John 5:17 ↩
2. 1 John 3:5 1 John 1:2; 3:8 ↩
3. 1 John 3:5 John 1:29; 1 Pet 1:18-20; 1 John 2:2 ↩
4. 1 John 3:5 2 Cor 5:21; 1 John 2:29 ↩
5. 1 John 3:6 1 John 3:9 ↩
6. 1 John 3:6 Or has known ↩
7. 1 John 3:6 1 John 2:3; 3 John 11 ↩
8. 1 John 3:7 1 John 2:1 ↩
9. 1 John 3:7 1 John 2:26 ↩
10. 1 John 3:7 1 John 2:29 ↩
11. 1 John 3:8 Matt 13:38; John 8:44; 1 John 3:10 ↩
12. 1 John 3:8 Lit sins ↩
13. 1 John 3:8 Matt 4:3 ↩
14. 1 John 3:8 1 John 3:5 ↩
15. 1 John 3:8 John 12:31; 16:11 ↩
16. 1 John 3:9 Or begotten ↩
17. 1 John 3:9 John 1:13; 3:3; 1 John 2:29; 4:7; 5:1, 4, 18; 3 John 11 ↩
18. 1 John 3:9 1 Pet 1:23; 1 John 3:6; 5:18 ↩
19. 1 John 3:9 Or begotten ↩
20. 1 John 3:10 John 1:12; 11:52; Rom 8:16; 1 John 3:1, 2 ↩
21. 1 John 3:10 Matt 13:38; John 8:44; 1 John 3:8 ↩
22. 1 John 3:10 Lit everyone ↩
23. 1 John 3:10 Rom 13:8ff; Col 3:14; 1 Tim 1:5; 1 John 4:8 ↩
24. 1 John 3:10 1 John 2:9 ↩
25. 1 John 3:11 1 John 1:5 ↩
26. 1 John 3:11 1 John 2:7 ↩
27. 1 John 3:11 John 13:4f; 15:12; 1 John 4:7, 11f, 21; 2 John 5 ↩
28. 1 John 3:12 Gen 4:8 ↩
29. 1 John 3:12 Matt 5:37; 1 John 2:13f ↩
30. 1 John 3:12 Ps 38:20; Prov 29:10; John 8:40, 41 ↩
31. 1 John 3:13 John 15:18; 17:14 ↩
32. 1 John 3:14 John 5:24 ↩
33. 1 John 3:14 John 13:35; 1 John 2:10 ↩
34. 1 John 3:15 Matt 5:21f; John 8:44 ↩
35. 1 John 3:15 Gal 5:20f; Rev 21:8 ↩
36. 1 John 3:16 John 10:11; 15:13 ↩
37. 1 John 3:16 Phil 2:17; 1 Thess 2:8 ↩
38. 1 John 3:16 1 John 2:9 ↩
39. 1 John 3:17 James 2:15f ↩
40. 1 John 3:17 Deut 15:7 ↩
41. 1 John 3:17 Lit inward parts ↩
42. 1 John 3:17 Lit from ↩
43. 1 John 3:17 1 John 4:20 ↩
44. 1 John 3:18 1 John 2:1; 3:7 ↩
45. 1 John 3:18 2 John 1; 3 John 1 ↩
46. 1 John 3:19 1 John 2:21 ↩
47. 1 John 3:19 Lit persuade ↩

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