1 John 3:1-7

1 See ¹what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called ²children of God; and so we are. The reason why ³the world does not know us is that ⁴it did not know him.

2 Beloved, we are ⁵God's children ⁶now, and what we will be ⁷has not yet appeared; but we know that ⁸when he appears^[a]9 we shall be like him, because ¹⁰we shall see him as he is.

3 And everyone who ¹¹thus hopes in him ¹²purifies himself as he is pure.

4 Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; ¹³sin is lawlessness.

5 You know that ¹⁴he appeared to ¹⁵take away sins, and ¹⁶in him there is no sin.

6 No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; ¹⁷no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him.

7 Little children, ¹⁸let no one deceive you. ¹⁹Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous.

Cross References

• 1. 1 John 4:10; John 3:16
• 2. John 1:12
• 3. [1 John 4:17]
• 4. John 16:3; John 17:25
• 5. [See ver. 1 above]
• 6. Romans 8:15; Galatians 3:26; Ephesians 1:5
• 7. [Romans 8:18; 2 Corinthians 4:17]
• 8. 1 John 2:28
• 9. Romans 8:29; 2 Corinthians 3:18; 2 Corinthians 4:11; Philippians 3:21; 2 Peter 1:4
• 10. John 17:24; 1 Corinthians 13:12; Revelation 22:4
• 11. Romans 15:12
• 12. 2 Corinthians 7:1
• 13. [1 John 5:17; Romans 4:15]
• 14. Hebrews 9:26; See 1 John 1:2
• 15. [Isaiah 53:11, 12]
• 16. See 1 Peter 2:22
• 17. 1 John 2:4; 1 John 4:8; 3 John 11
• 18. 1 John 2:26
• 19. 1 John 2:29

Footnotes

• [a]. Or when it appears