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1 See what kind of love✽ the Father✽ has lavished on us, that we should be called the sons of God.✽ Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know him✽. 2 Dearly loved ones, we are now the sons of God, and it does not yet appear what we will be,✽ but we know that when he appears,✽ we will be like him✽, for we will see him as he is.✽ 3 ✽And everyone who has this hope in him purifies✽ himself, just as he is pure.

4 ✽Whoever commits sin also breaks the Law, for sin is the breaking of the Law. 5 And you know that he was revealed to take away our sins,✽ and in him is no sin.✽ 6 ✽Whoever remains in him does not go on sinning.✽ Whoever goes on sinning has not seen him, and has not known him.

7 Little children, let no one deceive you.✽ He who practices righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.✽ 8 He who commits sin is of the devil✽. For the devil has been sinning from the beginning✽. For this purpose the Son of God was revealed, that he might destroy the works of the devil✽. 9 Whoever is born of God does not go on sinning✽, for his seed✽ remains in him✽ and he cannot go on sinning,✽ because he is born of God.✽ 10 ✽In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness✽ is not of God, neither is he who does not love his brother.✽

11 ✝For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another, 12 and not be like Cain,✽ who was of that wicked one, and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil, and his brother’s were righteous.

13 ✽Do not be surprised, my brethren, if the world hates you. 14 We know that we have passed from death to life,✽ because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother remains in death.✽ 15 ✽Whoever goes on hating his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer✽ has eternal life dwelling in him.

16 By this we know✽ the love of God: because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 17 ✽But whoever has this world’s good things, and sees his brother in need and shuts up his heart toward him, how can the love of God be in him? 18 My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth. 19 ✽And by this we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him. 20 For if our heart condemns us,✽ God is greater than our heart, and knows✽ all things.

21 Dearly loved ones, if our heart does not condemn us,✽ then we have confidence✽ toward God. 22 ✝And whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commands, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight✽.

23 And this is his command, that we should believe on the name✽ of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he commanded us. 24 ✝And he who keeps his commands remains in him, and he in him. And by this we know✽ that he remains in us, by the Spirit✽ which he has given to us✽.

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