1 John 2:29-3:10

Disciples’ Literal New Testament

Abiding Means Doing Righteousness, Which Characterizes All Those Born From God

²⁹ If you know^[a] that He^[b] is righteous, you know that everyone also doing righteousness has been born^[c] from Him. 3 ¹ See what-kind-of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called children of God! And we are! For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. ² Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet appeared^[d]. We know that if He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is. ³ And everyone having this hope in^[e] Him is purifying himself, just as that One is pure. ⁴ Everyone doing sin also is doing lawlessness. Indeed sin is lawlessness. ⁵ And you know that that One appeared in order that He might take-away sins. And there is no sin in Him. ⁶ Everyone abiding in Him is not sinning^[f]. Everyone sinning has not seen Him nor known Him. ⁷ Little-children, let no one be deceiving you— the one doing righteousness is righteous, just as that One is righteous. ⁸ The one doing sin is of the devil, because the devil is sinning^[g] from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this: that He might destroy the works of the devil. ⁹ Everyone having been born^[h] from God is not doing sin— because His seed^[i] is abiding in him, and he is not able to be sinning^[j] because he has been born from God. ¹⁰ By this, the children of God and the children of the devil are evident.

Abiding Means Loving In Deed And Truth, As Jesus Commanded Us

Everyone not doing^[k] righteousness is not from God— and the one not loving his brother!