1 John 3:8-10

Easy-to-Read Version

⁸ The devil has been sinning since the beginning. Anyone who continues to sin belongs to the devil. The Son of God came for this: to destroy the devil’s work.

⁹ Those who are God’s children do not continue to sin, because the new life God gave them^[a] stays in them. They cannot keep sinning, because they have become children of God. ¹⁰ So we can see who God’s children are and who the devil’s children are. These are the ones who are not God’s children: those who don’t do what is right and those who do not love their brothers and sisters in God’s family.