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and ye have known that he was manifested that our sins he may take away, and sin is not in him;
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every one who is remaining in him doth not sin; every one who is sinning, hath not seen him, nor known him.
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Little children, let no one lead you astray; he who is doing the righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous,
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he who is doing the sin, of the devil he is, because from the beginning the devil doth sin; for this was the Son of God manifested, that he may break up the works of the devil;
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every one who hath been begotten of God, sin he doth not, because his seed in him doth remain, and he is not able to sin, because of God he hath been begotten.
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In this manifest are the children of God, and the children of the devil; every one who is not doing righteousness, is not of God, and he who is not loving his brother,
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because this is the message that ye did hear from the beginning, that we may love one another,
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not as Cain -- of the evil one he was, and he did slay his brother, and wherefore did he slay him? because his works were evil, and those of his brother righteous.
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Do not wonder, my brethren, if the world doth hate you;
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we -- we have known that we have passed out of the death to the life, because we love the brethren; he who is not loving the brother doth remain in the death.
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Every one who is hating his brother -- a man-killer he is, and ye have known that no man-killer hath life age-during in him remaining,