Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness.(A) But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins.(B) And in him is no sin.(C) No one who lives in him keeps on sinning.(D) No one who continues to sin has either seen him(E) or known him.(F)

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Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and (A)sin is lawlessness. You know that He (B)appeared in order to (C)take away sins; and (D)in Him there is no sin. No one who remains in Him (E)sins continually; no one who sins continually has seen Him or [a](F)knows Him.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 John 3:6 Or has known

If a person continues to do wrong things, he is choosing not to obey God's rules. Sin is when we do not obey God's rules. You know that Jesus came into the world so that he might take away our sins. He himself is completely clean from sin. Anyone who lives together with Christ does not continue to do wrong things. If anyone continues to do wrong things, that person has not understood who Christ is. He does not know Christ.

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