⁴ Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness.^{(A) 5} But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins.^(B) And in him is no sin.^{(C) 6} No one who lives in him keeps on sinning.^(D) No one who continues to sin has either seen him^(E) or known him.^(F)

⁷ Dear children,^(G) do not let anyone lead you astray.^(H) The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous.^{(I) 8} The one who does what is sinful is of the devil,^(J) because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God^(K) appeared was to destroy the devil’s work.^{(L) 9} No one who is born of God^(M) will continue to sin,^(N) because God’s seed^(O) remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God. ¹⁰ This is how we know who the children of God^(P) are and who the children of the devil^(Q) are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love^(R) their brother and sister.^(S)

²⁷ “Now my soul is troubled,^(A) and what shall I say? ‘Father,^(B) save me from this hour’?^(C) No, it was for this very reason I came to this hour. ²⁸ Father, glorify your name!”

Then a voice came from heaven,^(D) “I have glorified it, and will glorify it again.” ²⁹ The crowd that was there and heard it said it had thundered; others said an angel had spoken to him.

³⁰ Jesus said, “This voice was for your benefit,^(E) not mine. ³¹ Now is the time for judgment on this world;^(F) now the prince of this world^(G) will be driven out. ³² And I, when I am lifted up^[a] from the earth,^(H) will draw all people to myself.”^(I)