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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.
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By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practicerighteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother.
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not as Cain, who was of the evilone and slew his brother. And for whatreason did he slay him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother's were righteous.