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Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.
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Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.
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Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
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Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.
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You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and in him is no sin.
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Whoever remains in him doesn't sin. Whoever sins hasn't seen him, neither knows him.
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Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.