Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; (A)sin is lawlessness. You know that (B)he appeared in order to (C)take away sins, and (D)in him there is no sin. No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; (E)no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him.

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Everyone who commits sin also breaks the law;[a] sin is the breaking of law. You know that He was revealed so that He might take away sins,[b](A) and there is no sin in Him.(B) Everyone who remains in Him(C) does not sin;[c](D) everyone who[d] sins has not seen Him or known Him.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 John 3:4 Or also commits iniquity
  2. 1 John 3:5 Other mss read our sins
  3. 1 John 3:6 Or not keep on sinning
  4. 1 John 3:6 Or who keeps on sinning