1 John 3:4-10
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4 Everyone who commits sin is guilty of lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.(A) 5 You know that he was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.(B) 6 No one who abides in him sins; no one who sins has either seen him or known him. 7 Little children,[a] let no one deceive you. Everyone who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. 8 Everyone who commits sin is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The Son of God was revealed for this purpose: to destroy the works of the devil.(C) 9 Those who have been born of God do not sin because God’s seed abides in them;[b] they cannot sin because they have been born of God.(D) 10 The children of God and the children of the devil are revealed in this way: all who do not do what is right are not from God, nor are those who do not love a brother or sister.(E)
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