New American Standard Bible 2020

1 John 3:9-24

9No one who has been 1born 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 2children of God and the 3children of the devil are obvious: 4anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who 5does not love his 6brother and sister.

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

13Do not be surprised, brothers and sisters, if 13the world hates you. 14We know that we have 14passed out of death into life, 15because we love the brothers and sisters. The one who does not love remains in death. 15Everyone who 16hates his brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that 17no murderer has eternal life remaining in him. 16We know love by this, that 18He laid down His life for us; and 19we ought to lay down our lives for the 20brothers and sisters. 17But 21whoever has worldly goods and sees his brother or sister in need, and 22closes his 23heart 24against him, 25how does the love of God remain in him? 18 26Little children, let’s not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and 27truth. 19We will know by this that we are 28of 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 29Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have 30confidence 31before God; 22and 32whatever we ask, we receive from Him, because we 33keep His commandments and do 34the things that are pleasing in His sight.

23This is His commandment, that we 35 36believe in 37the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as 38He 39commanded us. 24The one who 40keeps His commandments 41remains in Him, and He in him. 42We know by this that 43He remains in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.

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Notes

1. 1 John 3:9 John 1:13; 3:3; 1 John 2:29; 4:7; 5:1, 4, 18; 3 John 11 ↩
2. 1 John 3:10 John 1:12; 11:52; Rom 8:16; 1 John 3:1, 2 ↩
3. 1 John 3:10 Matt 13:38; John 8:44; 1 John 3:8 ↩
4. 1 John 3:10 Lit everyone ↩
5. 1 John 3:10 Rom 13:8ff; Col 3:14; 1 Tim 1:5; 1 John 4:8 ↩
6. 1 John 3:10 1 John 2:9 ↩
7. 1 John 3:11 1 John 1:5 ↩
8. 1 John 3:11 1 John 2:7 ↩
9. 1 John 3:11 John 13:4f; 15:12; 1 John 4:7, 11f, 21; 2 John 5 ↩
10. 1 John 3:12 Gen 4:8 ↩
11. 1 John 3:12 Matt 5:37; 1 John 2:13f ↩
12. 1 John 3:12 Ps 38:20; Prov 29:10; John 8:40, 41 ↩
13. 1 John 3:13 John 15:18; 17:14 ↩
14. 1 John 3:14 John 5:24 ↩
15. 1 John 3:14 John 13:35; 1 John 2:10 ↩
16. 1 John 3:15 Matt 5:21f; John 8:44 ↩
17. 1 John 3:15 Gal 5:20f; Rev 21:8 ↩
18. 1 John 3:16 John 10:11; 15:13 ↩
19. 1 John 3:16 Phil 2:17; 1 Thess 2:8 ↩
20. 1 John 3:16 1 John 2:9 ↩
21. 1 John 3:17 James 2:15f ↩
22. 1 John 3:17 Deut 15:7 ↩
23. 1 John 3:17 Lit inward parts ↩
24. 1 John 3:17 Lit from ↩
25. 1 John 3:17 1 John 4:20 ↩
26. 1 John 3:18 1 John 2:1; 3:7 ↩
27. 1 John 3:18 2 John 1; 3 John 1 ↩
28. 1 John 3:19 1 John 2:21 ↩
29. 1 John 3:21 1 John 3:2 ↩
30. 1 John 3:21 1 John 2:28; 5:14 ↩
31. 1 John 3:21 Lit toward ↩
32. 1 John 3:22 Job 22:26f; Matt 7:7; 21:22; John 9:31 ↩
33. 1 John 3:22 1 John 2:3 ↩
34. 1 John 3:22 John 8:29; Heb 13:21 ↩
35. 1 John 3:23 Or believe the name ↩
36. 1 John 3:23 John 6:29 ↩
37. 1 John 3:23 John 1:12; 2:23; 3:18 ↩
38. 1 John 3:23 John 13:34; 15:12; 1 John 2:8 ↩
39. 1 John 3:23 Lit gave us a commandment ↩
40. 1 John 3:24 1 John 2:3 ↩
41. 1 John 3:24 John 6:56; 10:38; 1 John 2:6, 24; 4:15 ↩
42. 1 John 3:24 John 14:17; Rom 8:9, 14, 16; 1 Thess 4:8; 1 John 4:13 ↩
43. 1 John 3:24 1 John 2:5 ↩

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