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 keeps living in sin also practices disobedience. In fact, sin is disobedience. You know that the Messiah[a] was revealed to take away sins,[b] and there is not any sin in him. No one who remains in union with him keeps on sinning. The one who keeps on sinning hasn’t seen him or known him.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 John 3:5 Lit. that he
  2. 1 John 3:5 Other mss. read our sins