New American Standard Bible 2020
1 John 3:4-12
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 67knows Him. 78Little 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.
1122For this is the message 23which you have heard from the beginning, 24that we are to love one another; 12not as 25Cain, who was of 26the evil one and murdered his brother. And for what reason did he murder him? Because 27his own deeds were evil, but his brother’s were righteous.
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 ↩
- 22. 1 John 3:11 1 John 1:5 ↩
- 23. 1 John 3:11 1 John 2:7 ↩
- 24. 1 John 3:11 John 13:4f; 15:12; 1 John 4:7, 11f, 21; 2 John 5 ↩
- 25. 1 John 3:12 Gen 4:8 ↩
- 26. 1 John 3:12 Matt 5:37; 1 John 2:13f ↩
- 27. 1 John 3:12 Ps 38:20; Prov 29:10; John 8:40, 41 ↩
Commentaries on 1 John 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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