3 See what great love^(A) the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!^(B) And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.^(C)

²⁶ and,

On Not Loving the World

¹⁵ Do not love the world or anything in the world.^(A) If anyone loves the world, love for the Father^[a] is not in them.^(B)

⁹ This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son^(A) into the world that we might live through him.^(B)

⁴ After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.

⁷ After he became the father of Enosh, Seth lived 807 years and had other sons and daughters.

¹⁰ After he became the father of Kenan, Enosh lived 815 years and had other sons and daughters.

¹³ After he became the father of Mahalalel, Kenan lived 840 years and had other sons and daughters.

¹⁵ These were the sons Leah bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram,^[a](A) besides his daughter Dinah.^(B) These sons and daughters of his were thirty-three in all.