1 John 3:7-10

International Standard Version

⁷ Little children, don’t let anyone deceive you. The person who practices righteousness is righteous, just as the Messiah^[a] is righteous. ⁸ The person who practices sin belongs to the evil one, because the Devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason that the Son of God was revealed was to destroy what the Devil has been doing. ⁹ No one who has been born from God practices sin, because God’s^[b] seed abides in him. Indeed, he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born from God. ¹⁰ This is how God’s children and the Devil’s children are distinguished.^[c] No person who fails to practice righteousness and to love his brother is from God.