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.

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10 This is how we know who the children of God(A) are and who the children of the devil(B) are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love(C) their brother and sister.(D)

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

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Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.(A)

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11 Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.

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11 Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil but what is good.(A) Anyone who does what is good is from God.(B) Anyone who does what is evil has not seen God.(C)

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21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

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21 And he has given us this command:(A) Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.(B)

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44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

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44 You belong to your father, the devil,(A) and you want to carry out your father’s desires.(B) He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.(C)

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35 But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.

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35 But love your enemies, do good to them,(A) and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children(B) of the Most High,(C) because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.

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38 The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;

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38 The field is the world, and the good seed stands for the people of the kingdom. The weeds are the people of the evil one,(A)

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Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

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.

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Dear children,(A) do not let anyone lead you astray.(B) The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous.(C) The one who does what is sinful is of the devil,(D) because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God(E) appeared was to destroy the devil’s work.(F)

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47 He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.

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47 Whoever belongs to God hears what God says.(A) The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.”

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Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;

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Follow God’s example,(A) therefore, as dearly loved children(B)

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By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.

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This is how we know(A) that we love the children of God:(B) by loving God and carrying out his commands.

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We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

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We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us.(A) This is how we recognize the Spirit[a] of truth(B) and the spirit of falsehood.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 John 4:6 Or spirit

And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

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but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist,(A) which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.(B)

You, dear children,(C) are from God and have overcome them,(D) because the one who is in you(E) is greater than the one who is in the world.(F)

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