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Seehowgreat a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be calledchildren of God; and such we are. For thisreason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.
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Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yetwhat we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is.
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the one who practicessin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of Godappeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil.