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How great is the love the Father has given us so freely! Now we can be called children of God. And that's what we really are! The world doesn't know us because it didn't know him.
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Dear friends, now we are children of God. He still hasn't let us know what we will be. But we know that when Christ appears, we will be like him. We will see him as he really is.
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He is pure. All who hope to be like him make themselves pure.
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Everyone who sins breaks the law. In fact, breaking the law is sin.
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But you know that Christ came to take our sins away. And there is no sin in him.
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No one who remains joined to him keeps on sinning. No one who keeps on sinning has seen him or known him.