New American Standard Bible 2020

1 John 3:4-19

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.

11 22For 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.

13Do not be surprised, brothers and sisters, if 28the world hates you. 14We know that we have 29passed out of death into life, 30because we love the brothers and sisters. The one who does not love remains in death. 15Everyone who 31hates his brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that 32no murderer has eternal life remaining in him. 16We know love by this, that 33He laid down His life for us; and 34we ought to lay down our lives for the 35brothers and sisters. 17But 36whoever has worldly goods and sees his brother or sister in need, and 37closes his 38heart 39against him, 40how does the love of God remain in him? 18 41Little children, let’s not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and 42truth. 19We will know by this that we are 43of the truth, and will set our heart at ease before Him,

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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 ↩
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 ↩
28. 1 John 3:13 John 15:18; 17:14 ↩
29. 1 John 3:14 John 5:24 ↩
30. 1 John 3:14 John 13:35; 1 John 2:10 ↩
31. 1 John 3:15 Matt 5:21f; John 8:44 ↩
32. 1 John 3:15 Gal 5:20f; Rev 21:8 ↩
33. 1 John 3:16 John 10:11; 15:13 ↩
34. 1 John 3:16 Phil 2:17; 1 Thess 2:8 ↩
35. 1 John 3:16 1 John 2:9 ↩
36. 1 John 3:17 James 2:15f ↩
37. 1 John 3:17 Deut 15:7 ↩
38. 1 John 3:17 Lit inward parts ↩
39. 1 John 3:17 Lit from ↩
40. 1 John 3:17 1 John 4:20 ↩
41. 1 John 3:18 1 John 2:1; 3:7 ↩
42. 1 John 3:18 2 John 1; 3 John 1 ↩
43. 1 John 3:19 1 John 2:21 ↩

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