1 John 3:1-4

Holman Christian Standard Bible

3 ¹ Look at how great a love^[a] the Father has given us that we should be called God’s children. And we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it didn’t know Him. ² Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed.^(A) We know that when He appears, we will be like Him^(B) because we will see Him as He is.^{(C) 3} And everyone who has this hope^(D) in Him purifies himself just as He is pure.^(E)

⁴ Everyone who commits sin also breaks the law;^[b] sin is the breaking of law.