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New American Standard Bible 1995

1 John 3:6-24

6No one who abides in Him 1sins; no one who sins has seen Him or 23knows Him. 74Little children, make sure no one 5deceives you; 6the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous; 8the one who practices sin is 7of the devil; for the devil 8has sinned from the beginning. 9The Son of God 10appeared for this purpose, 11to destroy the works of the devil. 9No one who is 1213born of God 14practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is 15born of God. 10By this the 16children of God and the 17children of the devil are obvious: 18anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who 19does not love his 20brother.

1121For this is the message 22which you have heard from the beginning, 23that we should love one another; 12not as 24Cain, who was of 25the evil one and slew his brother. And for what reason did he slay him? Because 26his deeds were evil, and his brother’s were righteous.

13Do not be surprised, brethren, if 27the world hates you. 14We know that we have 28passed out of death into life, 29because we love the brethren. He who does not love abides in death. 15Everyone who 30hates his brother is a murderer; and you know that 31no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. 16We know love by this, that 32He laid down His life for us; and 33we ought to lay down our lives for the 34brethren. 17But 35whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need and 36closes his 37heart 38against him, 39how does the love of God abide in him? 1840Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and 41truth. 19We will know by this that we are 42of the truth, and will 43assure our heart before Him 2044in whatever our heart condemns us; for God is greater than our heart and knows all things. 2145Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have 46confidence 47before God; 22and 48whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we 49keep His commandments and do 50the things that are pleasing in His sight.

23This is His commandment, that we 5152believe in 53the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as 54He 55commanded us. 24The one who 56keeps His commandments 57abides in Him, and He in him. 58We know by this that 59He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.

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Notes

  1. 1. 1 John 3:6 1 John 3:9 ↩
  2. 2. 1 John 3:6 Or has known ↩
  3. 3. 1 John 3:6 1 John 2:3; 3 John 11 ↩
  4. 4. 1 John 3:7 1 John 2:1 ↩
  5. 5. 1 John 3:7 1 John 2:26 ↩
  6. 6. 1 John 3:7 1 John 2:29 ↩
  7. 7. 1 John 3:8 Matt 13:38; John 8:44; 1 John 3:10 ↩
  8. 8. 1 John 3:8 Lit sins ↩
  9. 9. 1 John 3:8 Matt 4:3 ↩
  10. 10. 1 John 3:8 1 John 3:5 ↩
  11. 11. 1 John 3:8 John 12:31; 16:11 ↩
  12. 12. 1 John 3:9 Or begotten ↩
  13. 13. 1 John 3:9 John 1:13; 3:3; 1 John 2:29; 4:7; 5:1, 4, 18; 3 John 11 ↩
  14. 14. 1 John 3:9 1 Pet 1:23; 1 John 3:6; 5:18 ↩
  15. 15. 1 John 3:9 Or begotten ↩
  16. 16. 1 John 3:10 John 1:12; 11:52; Rom 8:16; 1 John 3:1, 2 ↩
  17. 17. 1 John 3:10 Matt 13:38; John 8:44; 1 John 3:8 ↩
  18. 18. 1 John 3:10 Lit everyone ↩
  19. 19. 1 John 3:10 Rom 13:8ff; Col 3:14; 1 Tim 1:5; 1 John 4:8 ↩
  20. 20. 1 John 3:10 1 John 2:9 ↩
  21. 21. 1 John 3:11 1 John 1:5 ↩
  22. 22. 1 John 3:11 1 John 2:7 ↩
  23. 23. 1 John 3:11 John 13:4f; 15:12; 1 John 4:7, 11f, 21; 2 John 5 ↩
  24. 24. 1 John 3:12 Gen 4:8 ↩
  25. 25. 1 John 3:12 Matt 5:37; 1 John 2:13f ↩
  26. 26. 1 John 3:12 Ps 38:20; Prov 29:10; John 8:40, 41 ↩
  27. 27. 1 John 3:13 John 15:18; 17:14 ↩
  28. 28. 1 John 3:14 John 5:24 ↩
  29. 29. 1 John 3:14 John 13:35; 1 John 2:10 ↩
  30. 30. 1 John 3:15 Matt 5:21f; John 8:44 ↩
  31. 31. 1 John 3:15 Gal 5:20f; Rev 21:8 ↩
  32. 32. 1 John 3:16 John 10:11; 15:13 ↩
  33. 33. 1 John 3:16 Phil 2:17; 1 Thess 2:8 ↩
  34. 34. 1 John 3:16 1 John 2:9 ↩
  35. 35. 1 John 3:17 James 2:15f ↩
  36. 36. 1 John 3:17 Deut 15:7 ↩
  37. 37. 1 John 3:17 Lit inward parts ↩
  38. 38. 1 John 3:17 Lit from ↩
  39. 39. 1 John 3:17 1 John 4:20 ↩
  40. 40. 1 John 3:18 1 John 2:1; 3:7 ↩
  41. 41. 1 John 3:18 2 John 1; 3 John 1 ↩
  42. 42. 1 John 3:19 1 John 2:21 ↩
  43. 43. 1 John 3:19 Lit persuade ↩
  44. 44. 1 John 3:20 Or that if our heart condemns us, that God... ↩
  45. 45. 1 John 3:21 1 John 3:2 ↩
  46. 46. 1 John 3:21 1 John 2:28; 5:14 ↩
  47. 47. 1 John 3:21 Lit toward ↩
  48. 48. 1 John 3:22 Job 22:26f; Matt 7:7; 21:22; John 9:31 ↩
  49. 49. 1 John 3:22 1 John 2:3 ↩
  50. 50. 1 John 3:22 John 8:29; Heb 13:21 ↩
  51. 51. 1 John 3:23 Or believe the name ↩
  52. 52. 1 John 3:23 John 6:29 ↩
  53. 53. 1 John 3:23 John 1:12; 2:23; 3:18 ↩
  54. 54. 1 John 3:23 John 13:34; 15:12; 1 John 2:8 ↩
  55. 55. 1 John 3:23 Lit gave us a commandment ↩
  56. 56. 1 John 3:24 1 John 2:3 ↩
  57. 57. 1 John 3:24 John 6:56; 10:38; 1 John 2:6, 24; 4:15 ↩
  58. 58. 1 John 3:24 John 14:17; Rom 8:9, 14, 16; 1 Thess 4:8; 1 John 4:13 ↩
  59. 59. 1 John 3:24 1 John 2:5 ↩

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