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1 John 2:29-3:10
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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!

Footnotes

  1. 1 John 2:29 Or, understand, recognize.
  2. 1 John 2:29 That is, the Father; or, Jesus.
  3. 1 John 2:29 Or, fathered by.
  4. 1 John 3:2 Or, been revealed, been made known.
  5. 1 John 3:3 That is, fixed on Him.
  6. 1 John 3:6 Or, continuing to sin.
  7. 1 John 3:8 Or, continuing to sin since.
  8. 1 John 3:9 Or, fathered.
  9. 1 John 3:9 That is, His nature, His life. It is transforming us from within, growing into His likeness.
  10. 1 John 3:9 That is, to be continuing in sin as a pattern of life. We all still sin, 1:8-10.
  11. 1 John 3:10 What John said positively in 2:29, he says negatively here.
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1 John 2:29-3:10
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29 If you know that he is righteous,(A) you know that everyone who does what is right has been born of him.(B)

3 See what great love(C) the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!(D) And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.(E) 2 Dear friends,(F) now we are children of God,(G) and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears,[a](H) we shall be like him,(I) for we shall see him as he is.(J) 3 All who have this hope in him purify themselves,(K) just as he is pure.(L)

4 Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness.(M) 5 But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins.(N) And in him is no sin.(O) 6 No one who lives in him keeps on sinning.(P) No one who continues to sin has either seen him(Q) or known him.(R)

7 Dear children,(S) do not let anyone lead you astray.(T) The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous.(U) 8 The one who does what is sinful is of the devil,(V) because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God(W) appeared was to destroy the devil’s work.(X) 9 No one who is born of God(Y) will continue to sin,(Z) because God’s seed(AA) remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God. 10 This is how we know who the children of God(AB) are and who the children of the devil(AC) are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love(AD) their brother and sister.(AE)

Footnotes

  1. 1 John 3:2 Or when it is made known
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