New American Standard Bible 2020

1 John 3

Children of God Love One Another

1See 1 2how great a love the Father has given us, that we would be called 3children of God; and in fact we are. For this reason the world does not know us: because 4it did not know Him. 2 5Beloved, now we are 6children of God, and 7it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He 8appears, we will be 9like Him, because we will 10see Him just as He is. 3And everyone who has this 11hope set on Him 12purifies himself, just as He is pure.

4Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and 13sin is lawlessness. 5You know that He 14appeared in order to 15take away sins; and 16in Him there is no sin. 6No one who remains in Him 17sins continually; no one who sins continually has seen Him or 18 19knows Him. 7 20Little children, make sure no one 21deceives you; 22the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous; 8the one who practices sin is 23of the devil; for the devil 24has been sinning from the beginning. 25The Son of God 26appeared for this purpose, 27to destroy the works of the devil. 9No one who has been 28born of God practices sin, because His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin continually, because he has been born of God. 10By this the 29children of God and the 30children of the devil are obvious: 31anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who 32does not love his 33brother and sister.

11 34For this is the message 35which you have heard from the beginning, 36that we are to love one another; 12not as 37Cain, who was of 38the evil one and murdered his brother. And for what reason did he murder him? Because 39his own deeds were evil, but his brother’s were righteous.

13Do not be surprised, brothers and sisters, if 40the world hates you. 14We know that we have 41passed out of death into life, 42because we love the brothers and sisters. The one who does not love remains in death. 15Everyone who 43hates his brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that 44no murderer has eternal life remaining in him. 16We know love by this, that 45He laid down His life for us; and 46we ought to lay down our lives for the 47brothers and sisters. 17But 48whoever has worldly goods and sees his brother or sister in need, and 49closes his 50heart 51against him, 52how does the love of God remain in him? 18 53Little children, let’s not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and 54truth. 19We will know by this that we are 55of the truth, and will set our heart at ease before Him, 20that if our heart condemns us, that God is greater than our heart, and He knows all things. 21 56Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have 57confidence 58before God; 22and 59whatever we ask, we receive from Him, because we 60keep His commandments and do 61the things that are pleasing in His sight.

23This is His commandment, that we 62 63believe in 64the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as 65He 66commanded us. 24The one who 67keeps His commandments 68remains in Him, and He in him. 69We know by this that 70He remains in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.

Notes

1. 1 John 3:1 Lit what kind of love ↩
2. 1 John 3:1 John 3:16; 1 John 4:10 ↩
3. 1 John 3:1 John 1:12; 11:52; Rom 8:16; 1 John 3:2, 10 ↩
4. 1 John 3:1 John 15:18, 21; 16:3 ↩
5. 1 John 3:2 1 John 2:7 ↩
6. 1 John 3:2 John 1:12; 11:52; Rom 8:16; 1 John 3:1, 10 ↩
7. 1 John 3:2 Rom 8:19, 23f ↩
8. 1 John 3:2 Luke 17:30; Col 3:4; 1 John 2:28 ↩
9. 1 John 3:2 Rom 8:29; 2 Pet 1:4 ↩
10. 1 John 3:2 John 17:24; 2 Cor 3:18 ↩
11. 1 John 3:3 Rom 15:12; 1 Pet 1:3 ↩
12. 1 John 3:3 John 17:19; 2 Cor 7:1 ↩
13. 1 John 3:4 Rom 4:15; 1 John 5:17 ↩
14. 1 John 3:5 1 John 1:2; 3:8 ↩
15. 1 John 3:5 John 1:29; 1 Pet 1:18-20; 1 John 2:2 ↩
16. 1 John 3:5 2 Cor 5:21; 1 John 2:29 ↩
17. 1 John 3:6 1 John 3:9 ↩
18. 1 John 3:6 Or has known ↩
19. 1 John 3:6 1 John 2:3; 3 John 11 ↩
20. 1 John 3:7 1 John 2:1 ↩
21. 1 John 3:7 1 John 2:26 ↩
22. 1 John 3:7 1 John 2:29 ↩
23. 1 John 3:8 Matt 13:38; John 8:44; 1 John 3:10 ↩
24. 1 John 3:8 Lit sins ↩
25. 1 John 3:8 Matt 4:3 ↩
26. 1 John 3:8 1 John 3:5 ↩
27. 1 John 3:8 John 12:31; 16:11 ↩
28. 1 John 3:9 John 1:13; 3:3; 1 John 2:29; 4:7; 5:1, 4, 18; 3 John 11 ↩
29. 1 John 3:10 John 1:12; 11:52; Rom 8:16; 1 John 3:1, 2 ↩
30. 1 John 3:10 Matt 13:38; John 8:44; 1 John 3:8 ↩
31. 1 John 3:10 Lit everyone ↩
32. 1 John 3:10 Rom 13:8ff; Col 3:14; 1 Tim 1:5; 1 John 4:8 ↩
33. 1 John 3:10 1 John 2:9 ↩
34. 1 John 3:11 1 John 1:5 ↩
35. 1 John 3:11 1 John 2:7 ↩
36. 1 John 3:11 John 13:4f; 15:12; 1 John 4:7, 11f, 21; 2 John 5 ↩
37. 1 John 3:12 Gen 4:8 ↩
38. 1 John 3:12 Matt 5:37; 1 John 2:13f ↩
39. 1 John 3:12 Ps 38:20; Prov 29:10; John 8:40, 41 ↩
40. 1 John 3:13 John 15:18; 17:14 ↩
41. 1 John 3:14 John 5:24 ↩
42. 1 John 3:14 John 13:35; 1 John 2:10 ↩
43. 1 John 3:15 Matt 5:21f; John 8:44 ↩
44. 1 John 3:15 Gal 5:20f; Rev 21:8 ↩
45. 1 John 3:16 John 10:11; 15:13 ↩
46. 1 John 3:16 Phil 2:17; 1 Thess 2:8 ↩
47. 1 John 3:16 1 John 2:9 ↩
48. 1 John 3:17 James 2:15f ↩
49. 1 John 3:17 Deut 15:7 ↩
50. 1 John 3:17 Lit inward parts ↩
51. 1 John 3:17 Lit from ↩
52. 1 John 3:17 1 John 4:20 ↩
53. 1 John 3:18 1 John 2:1; 3:7 ↩
54. 1 John 3:18 2 John 1; 3 John 1 ↩
55. 1 John 3:19 1 John 2:21 ↩
56. 1 John 3:21 1 John 3:2 ↩
57. 1 John 3:21 1 John 2:28; 5:14 ↩
58. 1 John 3:21 Lit toward ↩
59. 1 John 3:22 Job 22:26f; Matt 7:7; 21:22; John 9:31 ↩
60. 1 John 3:22 1 John 2:3 ↩
61. 1 John 3:22 John 8:29; Heb 13:21 ↩
62. 1 John 3:23 Or believe the name ↩
63. 1 John 3:23 John 6:29 ↩
64. 1 John 3:23 John 1:12; 2:23; 3:18 ↩
65. 1 John 3:23 John 13:34; 15:12; 1 John 2:8 ↩
66. 1 John 3:23 Lit gave us a commandment ↩
67. 1 John 3:24 1 John 2:3 ↩
68. 1 John 3:24 John 6:56; 10:38; 1 John 2:6, 24; 4:15 ↩
69. 1 John 3:24 John 14:17; Rom 8:9, 14, 16; 1 Thess 4:8; 1 John 4:13 ↩
70. 1 John 3:24 1 John 2:5 ↩

Children of God Love One Another

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Commentaries on 1 John 3