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Upgrade to Bible Gateway Plus and get the best value in digital Bible study. The Command to Love - Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does.
2 Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. 3 And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.
4 Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. 5 And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin. 6 Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him. 7 Little children, let no one deceive you.
15 Everyone who keeps hating a fellow believer is a murderer, # 3:15 See Matt. 5:21–22. and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him. 16 This is how we have discovered love’s reality: Jesus sacrificed his life for us.
1 John 3 - Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God!* Therefore the world does not know us,* because it did not know Him.
4 Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. 5 And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin. 6 Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him. 7 Little children, let no one deceive you.
1. (1 John 3:4-5) The nature of sin and Jesus’ work in removing our sin. Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin. a. Sin is lawlessness: John defines sin at its most basic root.
