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18 We know that God’s children do not make a practice of sinning, for God’s Son holds them securely, and the evil one cannot touch them.

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18 We know that anyone born of God(A) does not continue to sin; the One who was born of God keeps them safe, and the evil one(B) cannot harm them.(C)

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Those who have been born into God’s family do not make a practice of sinning, because God’s life[a] is in them. So they can’t keep on sinning, because they are children of God.

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Footnotes

  1. 3:9 Greek because his seed.

No one who is born of God(A) will continue to sin,(B) because God’s seed(C) remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God.

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For every child of God defeats this evil world, and we achieve this victory through our faith.

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for everyone born of God(A) overcomes(B) the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.

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21 and await the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, who will bring you eternal life. In this way, you will keep yourselves safe in God’s love.

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21 keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait(A) for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.(B)

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Faith in the Son of God

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ[a] has become a child of God. And everyone who loves the Father loves his children, too.

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Footnotes

  1. 5:1 Or the Messiah.

Faith in the Incarnate Son of God

Everyone who believes(A) that Jesus is the Christ(B) is born of God,(C) and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well.(D)

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27 Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you.

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27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after(A) orphans and widows(B) in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.(C)

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A Prayer of Praise

24 Now all glory to God, who is able to keep you from falling away and will bring you with great joy into his glorious presence without a single fault.

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Doxology

24 To him who is able(A) to keep you from stumbling and to present you before his glorious presence(B) without fault(C) and with great joy—

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And all who have this eager expectation will keep themselves pure, just as he is pure.

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All who have this hope in him purify themselves,(A) just as he is pure.(B)

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29 Since we know that Christ is righteous, we also know that all who do what is right are God’s children.

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29 If you know that he is righteous,(A) you know that everyone who does what is right has been born of him.(B)

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101 I have refused to walk on any evil path,
    so that I may remain obedient to your word.

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101 I have kept my feet(A) from every evil path
    so that I might obey your word.(B)

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“I know all the things you do, and I have opened a door for you that no one can close. You have little strength, yet you obeyed my word and did not deny me. Look, I will force those who belong to Satan’s synagogue—those liars who say they are Jews but are not—to come and bow down at your feet. They will acknowledge that you are the ones I love.

10 “Because you have obeyed my command to persevere, I will protect you from the great time of testing that will come upon the whole world to test those who belong to this world.

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I know your deeds.(A) See, I have placed before you an open door(B) that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.(C) I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan,(D) who claim to be Jews though they are not,(E) but are liars—I will make them come and fall down at your feet(F) and acknowledge that I have loved you.(G) 10 Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you(H) from the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world(I) to test(J) the inhabitants of the earth.(K)

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23 For you have been born again, but not to a life that will quickly end. Your new life will last forever because it comes from the eternal, living word of God.

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23 For you have been born again,(A) not of perishable seed, but of imperishable,(B) through the living and enduring word of God.(C)

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“I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love.

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“As the Father has loved me,(A) so have I loved you. Now remain in my love.

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