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Everyone who sins is breaking God’s law, for all sin is contrary to the law of God. And you know that Jesus came to take away our sins, and there is no sin in him. Anyone who continues to live in him will not sin. But anyone who keeps on sinning does not know him or understand who he is.

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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