Book of Common Prayer

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^[a]. 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^[b] 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^[c]. 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^[d] from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this: that He might destroy the works of the devil. ⁹ Everyone having been born^[e] from God is not doing sin— because His seed^[f] is abiding in him, and he is not able to be sinning^[g] 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^[h] righteousness is not from God— and the one not loving his brother!

The Jewish Leaders Want To Kill Jesus For Blasphemy Because He Is Making Himself God

³¹ The Jews again carried stones in order that they might stone Him. ³² Jesus responded to them, “I showed you many good works from the Father. For which work of them do you stone Me?” ³³ The Jews answered Him, “We do not stone You for a good work, but for blasphemy— even because You, being a human, are making Yourself God”.

Jesus Responds: Saying “I Am God’s Son” Is Not Blasphemy If I Am Doing God’s Works

³⁴ Jesus responded to them, “Has it not been written in your Law that ‘I said, you are gods^[a]’? ³⁵ If He^[b] called those ones to whom the word of God came gods— and the Scripture cannot be broken— ³⁶ do you^[c] say as to the One Whom the Father set-apart and sent-forth into the world that ‘You are blaspheming’ because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’? ³⁷ If I am not doing the works of My Father, do not be believing Me. ³⁸ But if I am doing them— even if you do not believe Me, be believing the works, in order that you may come-to-know and be understanding^[d] that the Father is in Me, and I in the Father”. ³⁹ Then they were seeking again to seize Him, and He went out of their hand.

Jesus Leaves Judea

⁴⁰ And He went away again beyond the Jordan, to the place where John was first baptizing. And He was staying there. ⁴¹ And many came to Him, and were saying that “John did no sign— but all that John said about this One was true”. ⁴² And many believed in Him there.