New American Standard Bible 2020

1 John 3:10-23

10By this the 1children of God and the 2children of the devil are obvious: 3anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who 4does not love his 5brother and sister.

11 6For this is the message 7which you have heard from the beginning, 8that we are to love one another; 12not as 9Cain, who was of 10the evil one and murdered his brother. And for what reason did he murder him? Because 11his own deeds were evil, but his brother’s were righteous.

13Do not be surprised, brothers and sisters, if 12the world hates you. 14We know that we have 13passed out of death into life, 14because we love the brothers and sisters. The one who does not love remains in death. 15Everyone who 15hates his brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that 16no murderer has eternal life remaining in him. 16We know love by this, that 17He laid down His life for us; and 18we ought to lay down our lives for the 19brothers and sisters. 17But 20whoever has worldly goods and sees his brother or sister in need, and 21closes his 22heart 23against him, 24how does the love of God remain in him? 18 25Little children, let’s not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and 26truth. 19We will know by this that we are 27of 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 28Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have 29confidence 30before God; 22and 31whatever we ask, we receive from Him, because we 32keep His commandments and do 33the things that are pleasing in His sight.

23This is His commandment, that we 34 35believe in 36the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as 37He 38commanded us.

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Notes

1. 1 John 3:10 John 1:12; 11:52; Rom 8:16; 1 John 3:1, 2 ↩
2. 1 John 3:10 Matt 13:38; John 8:44; 1 John 3:8 ↩
3. 1 John 3:10 Lit everyone ↩
4. 1 John 3:10 Rom 13:8ff; Col 3:14; 1 Tim 1:5; 1 John 4:8 ↩
5. 1 John 3:10 1 John 2:9 ↩
6. 1 John 3:11 1 John 1:5 ↩
7. 1 John 3:11 1 John 2:7 ↩
8. 1 John 3:11 John 13:4f; 15:12; 1 John 4:7, 11f, 21; 2 John 5 ↩
9. 1 John 3:12 Gen 4:8 ↩
10. 1 John 3:12 Matt 5:37; 1 John 2:13f ↩
11. 1 John 3:12 Ps 38:20; Prov 29:10; John 8:40, 41 ↩
12. 1 John 3:13 John 15:18; 17:14 ↩
13. 1 John 3:14 John 5:24 ↩
14. 1 John 3:14 John 13:35; 1 John 2:10 ↩
15. 1 John 3:15 Matt 5:21f; John 8:44 ↩
16. 1 John 3:15 Gal 5:20f; Rev 21:8 ↩
17. 1 John 3:16 John 10:11; 15:13 ↩
18. 1 John 3:16 Phil 2:17; 1 Thess 2:8 ↩
19. 1 John 3:16 1 John 2:9 ↩
20. 1 John 3:17 James 2:15f ↩
21. 1 John 3:17 Deut 15:7 ↩
22. 1 John 3:17 Lit inward parts ↩
23. 1 John 3:17 Lit from ↩
24. 1 John 3:17 1 John 4:20 ↩
25. 1 John 3:18 1 John 2:1; 3:7 ↩
26. 1 John 3:18 2 John 1; 3 John 1 ↩
27. 1 John 3:19 1 John 2:21 ↩
28. 1 John 3:21 1 John 3:2 ↩
29. 1 John 3:21 1 John 2:28; 5:14 ↩
30. 1 John 3:21 Lit toward ↩
31. 1 John 3:22 Job 22:26f; Matt 7:7; 21:22; John 9:31 ↩
32. 1 John 3:22 1 John 2:3 ↩
33. 1 John 3:22 John 8:29; Heb 13:21 ↩
34. 1 John 3:23 Or believe the name ↩
35. 1 John 3:23 John 6:29 ↩
36. 1 John 3:23 John 1:12; 2:23; 3:18 ↩
37. 1 John 3:23 John 13:34; 15:12; 1 John 2:8 ↩
38. 1 John 3:23 Lit gave us a commandment ↩

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