1 Yohan (1 John) 3:1–10 — Living as God’s children

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1 Yhn 3:1–10

3:1 Living as God’s children

3 Consider the amazing love that the father has given to us in order that we can be called God’s children,[ref] and indeed we are.[fn] 2 Dear friends we are God’s children now, but it’s not yet revealed what we will become. We know that when Yeshua (Jesus; Grk. Yesus) is revealed, we will be similar to him because then we’ll be seeing him exactly as he is. 3 Everyone who trusts their future to him needs to purify themself just like he is pure.

4 Everyone who regularly sins is demonstrating lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. 5 You all know that Yeshua was revealed in order to take away sins,[ref] and there’s no sin in him. 6 Everyone who remains in him doesn’t sin—everyone who keeps sinning has neither really seen Yeshua nor known him.

7 So new believers, don’t let anyone deceive you: the person faithfully obeying Yeshua’s teaching will be declared not guilty just as he is not guilty. 8 Anyone who regularly sins belongs to the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning.

9 Everyone who’s been reborn in God, doesn’t regularly sin because God’s seed of life remains in them and that person isn’t able to sin because they have been reborn in God. 10 You can distinguish God’s children and the devil’s children like this: everyone who doesn’t faithfully obey Yeshua’s teaching or doesn’t love their fellow believers, that person doesn’t belong to God.

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3 See what _kind _of love the father has _given to _us, in _order _that we _may _be _called children of_god, and we _are.
Because _of this, the world is_ not _knowing us, because it_ not _knew him.

2 Beloved, now we _are children of_god, and was_ not _yet _revealed what we _will _be.
We _have _known that if he _may _be _revealed, we _will _be similar to _him, because we _will _be _seeing him as he _is.

3 And everyone which having the this hope in him, is _purifying himself, as that one is pure.

4 Everyone which practicing the sin, is_ also _practicing the lawlessness, and the sin is the lawlessness.

5 And you _all _have _known that that one was _revealed, in _order _that he _may _take _away the sins, and sin is not in him.

6 Everyone which remaining in him is_ not _sinning, everyone which sinning has_ neither _seen him, nor has _known him.

7 Little _children, let_ no _one _be _deceiving you _all, the one practicing the righteousness, is righteous, as that one is righteous.

8 The one practicing the sin, is of the devil, because the devil is _sinning from the_beginning.
The son of_ the _god was _revealed for this, in _order _that he _may _destroy the works of _the devil.

9 Everyone which having _been _born of the god, is_ not _practicing sin, because the_seed of _him is _remaining in him, and he _is_ not _able to _be _sinning, because he _has _been _born of the god.

10 The children of_ the _god, and the children of _the devil is manifest in this:
everyone which not practicing righteousness, and the one not loving the brother of _him, is not of the god.

3:1 ‘and indeed we are’ is missing from later manuscripts (and hence is omitted in some translations—there are more later copies than early ones and some scholars give more importance to that fact).

3:1: Yhn 1:12.

3:5: Yhn 1:29.

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Living as God’s children

1 Yhn 3:1–10

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Living as God’s children

1 Yhn 3:1–10

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OET-RV by cross-referenced section 1 YHN 3:1

1 Yhn 3:1–10