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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  1. 1 John 3:6 Or has known

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