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          DASV: 1 John 3    

1 See what love the Father has given us, that we should be
called God’s children. And so we are! For this reason the
world does not know us because it did not know him.
2 Dear friends, now we are God’s children, and what we will be
has not yet been revealed. We know that, when he appears we
will be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
3 Everyone that has this hope in him purifies himself, just
as he is pure.
4 Everyone who practices sin breaks the law, for sin is
lawlessness.
5 You know that he was revealed to take away sins, and
in him there is no sin.
6 Whoever abides in him does not continue sinning, whoever
sins has not seen him or known him.
7 My dear children, let no one deceive you. Whoever does
what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous.
8 The one who practices sin is of the devil, for the devil
has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son
of God was revealed, that he might destroy the works of
the devil.
9 Whoever is born of God will not continue sinning, because
God’s seed abides in him, and he cannot sin, because he is
born of God.
10 By this the children of God and the children of the devil
are revealed, whoever does not do righteousness or love
his brother is not of God.

11 For this is the message which you heard from the beginning:
we should love one another.
12 Not as Cain who was from the evil one, and murdered his
brother. Why did he kill him? Because his works were evil,
and his brother's righteous.
13 Do not be surprised brothers, if the world hates you.
14 We know that we have crossed over from death to life,
because we love our brothers. Whoever does not love abides
in death.
15 Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know
that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
16 This is how we know love: he laid down his life for us.
So we also ought to lay down our lives for each other.
17 But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in
need, and shuts off his compassion from him, how does the
love of God abide in such a one?
18 My dear children, let us not love in word, or with the
tongue, but in deed and truth.
19 By this we will know that we are of the truth, and will
assure our hearts when we stand before him.
20 Even if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart,
and knows everything.
21 Dear friends, if our heart does not condemn us, we have
confidence before God,
22 and we will receive from him whatever we ask for, because
we obey his commandments and do the things that please him.
23 This is his commandment: that we should believe in the
name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another,
just as he commanded us.
24 Whoever keeps God’s commandments abides in him, and he
in him. By this we know that he abides in us, because
of the Spirit which he gave us.

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