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| 1See what kind of love the Father has given us: We are called God's children—and that is what we are! For this reason the world does not recognize us, because it did not recognize him, either. | 1See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. |
| 2Dear friends, we are now God's children, but what we will be like has not been revealed yet. We know that when the Messiah is revealed, we will be like him, because we will see him as he is. | 2Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. |
| 3And everyone who has this hope based on him keeps himself pure, just as the Messiah is pure. | 3And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure. |
| 4Everyone who keeps living in sin also practices disobedience. In fact, sin is disobedience. | 4Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. |
| 5You know that the Messiah was revealed to take away sins, and there is not any sin in him. | 5You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. |
| 6No one who remains in union with him keeps on sinning. The one who keeps on sinning hasn't seen him or known him. | 6No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him. |
| 7Little children, don't let anyone deceive you. The person who practices righteousness is righteous, just as the Messiah is righteous. | 7Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous. |
| 8The 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. | 8Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. |
| 9No one who has been born from God practices sin, because God's seed abides in him. Indeed, he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born from God. | 9No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God’s seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God. |
| 10This is how God's children and the devil's children are distinguished. No person who fails to practice righteousness and to love his brother is from God. | 10By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother. |
| 11This is the message that you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another. | 11For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. |
| 12Do not be like Cain, who was from the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because what he was doing was evil and his brother's actions were righteous. | 12We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous. |
| 13So do not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you. | 13Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you. |
| 14We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love one another. The person who does not love remains spiritually dead. | 14We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death. |
| 15Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life present in him. | 15Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. |
| 16This is how we have come to know love: the Messiah gave his life for us. We, too, ought to give our lives for our brothers. | 16By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. |
| 17Whoever has earthly possessions and notices a brother in need and yet withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God be present in him? | 17But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? |
| 18Little children, we must stop expressing love merely by our words and manner of speech; we must love also in action and in truth. | 18Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. |
| 19This is how we will know that we belong to the truth and how we will be able to keep ourselves strong in his presence. | 19By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him; |
| 20If our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts and knows everything. | 20for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything. |
| 21Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence in the presence of God. | 21Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God; |
| 22Whatever we request we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him. | 22and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him. |
| 23And this is his commandment: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus the Messiah, and to love one another as he commanded us. | 23And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us. |
| 24The person who keeps his commandments abides in God, and God abides in him. This is how we can be sure that he remains in us: he has given us his Spirit. | 24Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us. |
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