New American Standard Bible 2020

1 John 3:4-10

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 remains in Him 5sins continually; no one who sins continually 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 been sinning from the beginning. 13The Son of God 14appeared for this purpose, 15to destroy the works of the devil. 9No one who has been 16born 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 17children of God and the 18children of the devil are obvious: 19anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who 20does not love his 21brother and sister.

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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 John 1:13; 3:3; 1 John 2:29; 4:7; 5:1, 4, 18; 3 John 11 ↩
17. 1 John 3:10 John 1:12; 11:52; Rom 8:16; 1 John 3:1, 2 ↩
18. 1 John 3:10 Matt 13:38; John 8:44; 1 John 3:8 ↩
19. 1 John 3:10 Lit everyone ↩
20. 1 John 3:10 Rom 13:8ff; Col 3:14; 1 Tim 1:5; 1 John 4:8 ↩
21. 1 John 3:10 1 John 2:9 ↩

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