约翰一书 3
Chinese New Version (Simplified)
3 你们看，父赐给我们的是怎样的爱，就是让我们可以称为 神的儿女，我们也真是他的儿女。因此，世人不认识我们，是因为他们不认识父。 2 亲爱的，现在我们是 神的儿女，将来怎样，还没有显明；然而我们知道：主若显现，我们必要像他，因为我们必要看见他本来是怎样的。 3 凡对他存着这盼望的，就洁净自己，像他一样的洁净。
4 凡是犯罪的，就是作了不法的事；罪就是不法。 5 你们知道主曾经显现，为要除掉罪，他自己却没有罪。 6 凡是住在他里面的，就不犯罪；凡犯罪的，是未曾见过他，也不认识他。 7 孩子们，不要受人欺骗，行义的才是义人，正如主是公义的。 8 犯罪的是出于魔鬼，因为魔鬼从起初就犯罪。因此， 神的儿子显现了，是要除灭魔鬼的作为。 9 凡是从 神生的，就不犯罪，因为 神的生命（“ 神的生命”原文作“种子”）在他里面；他也不能犯罪，因为他是从 神生的。 10 这样，谁是 神的儿女，谁是魔鬼的儿女，就很明显了。凡不行义的，就不是出于 神，不爱弟兄的，也是这样。
应当彼此相爱
11 我们应当彼此相爱，因为这是你们从起初听见的信息。 12 不要像该隐，他是属于那恶者的，他又杀了自己的弟弟。为甚么杀他呢？因为他自己的行为是恶的，弟弟的行为是义的。 13 弟兄们，世人若恨你们，不要希奇。 14 我们因为爱弟兄，就知道我们已经出死入生了；不爱弟兄的，仍然住在死中。 15 凡恨弟兄的，就是杀人的。你们知道，杀人的在他里面没有永生。 16 主为我们舍命，这样，我们就知道甚么是爱；我们也应当为弟兄舍命。 17 凡有世上财物的，看见弟兄穷乏，却硬着心肠不理，他怎能说他心里有 神的爱呢？ 18 孩子们，我们爱人，不要只在言语和舌头上，总要在行动和真诚上表现出来。
在 神面前可以坦然无惧
19-20 这样，我们就知道我们是属于真理的。即使我们的心责备我们，在 神面前我们也可以心安理得，因为他比我们的心大，他知道一切。 21 亲爱的，我们的心若不责备我们，在 神面前我们就可以坦然无惧了。 22 凡我们所求的，就必从他得着，因为我们遵守他的命令，作他所喜悦的事。 23 神的命令，就是要我们信他的儿子耶稣基督的名，并且照着他的吩咐彼此相爱。 24 凡是遵守 神命令的，就住在 神里面， 神也住在他里面。凭着 神所赐给我们的圣灵，我们就可以知道 神住在我们里面。
1 John 3
Contemporary English Version
3 (A) Think how much the Father loves us. He loves us so much that he lets us be called his children, as we truly are. But since the people of this world did not know who Christ[a] is, they don't know who we are. 2 My dear friends, we are already God's children, though what we will be hasn't yet been seen. But we do know when Christ returns, we will be like him, because we will see him as he truly is. 3 This hope makes us keep ourselves holy, just as Christ[b] is holy.
4 Everyone who sins breaks God's law, because sin is the same as breaking God's law. 5 (B) You know Christ came to take away our sins. He isn't sinful, 6 and people who stay one in their hearts with him won't keep on sinning. If they do keep on sinning, they don't know Christ, and they have never seen him.
7 Children, don't be fooled. Anyone who does right is good, just like Christ himself. 8 Anyone who keeps on sinning belongs to the devil. He has sinned from the beginning, but the Son of God came to destroy all that he has done. 9 God's children cannot keep on being sinful. His life-giving power[c] lives in them and makes them his children, so they cannot keep on sinning. 10 You can tell God's children from the devil's children, because those who belong to the devil refuse to do right or to love each other.
Love Each Other
11 (C) From the beginning you were told we must love each other. 12 (D) Don't be like Cain, who belonged to the devil and murdered his own brother. Why did he murder him? He did it because his brother was good, and he was evil. 13 My friends, don't be surprised if the people of this world hate you. 14 (E) Our love for each other proves we have gone from death to life. But if you don't love each other, you are still under the power of death.
15 If you hate each other, you are murderers, and we know murderers do not have eternal life. 16 We know what love is because Jesus gave his life for us. This is why we must give our lives for each other. 17 If we have all we need and see one of our own people in need, we must have pity on that person, or else we cannot say we love God. 18 Children, you show love for others by truly helping them, and not merely by talking about it.
19 When we love others, we know we belong to the truth, and we feel at ease in the presence of God. 20 But even if we don't feel at ease, God is greater than our feelings, and he knows everything. 21 Dear friends, if we feel at ease in the presence of God, we will have the courage to come near him. 22 He will give us whatever we ask, because we obey him and do what pleases him. 23 (F) God wants us to have faith in his Son Jesus Christ and to love each other. This is also what Jesus taught us to do. 24 If we obey God's commandments, we will stay one in our hearts with him, and he will stay one with us. The Spirit he has given us is proof that we are one with him.
1 John 3
King James Version
3 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
5 And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.
6 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.
7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
11 For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
12 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
13 Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
14 We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
17 But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
19 And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
20 For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
21 Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.
22 And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
23 And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
24 And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.
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