a[ch. 5:17; Rom. 4:15]
bHeb. 9:26; See ch. 1:2
c[Isa. 53:11, 12]
dSee 1 Pet. 2:22
ech. 2:4; 4:8; 3 John 11
fch. 2:26
gch. 2:29
hMatt. 13:38; John 8:44
iHeb. 2:14; [Gen. 3:15; Luke 10:18; John 16:11]
jch. 5:18
lch. 4:8
mch. 4:20, 21

1 John 3:4-10

4Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; asin is lawlessness. 5You know that bhe appeared in order to ctake away sins, and din him there is no sin. 6No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; eno one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him. 7Little children, flet no one deceive you. gWhoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous. 8 hWhoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was ito destroy the works of the devil. 9 jNo one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God’s ▼
▼Greek his
 seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God. 10By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, lnor is the one who mdoes not love his brother.

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