Chapter 3
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3: • 1 Look and perceive what love the Father has given to us, that we should be called as children birthed out from God. Because of this, the world-cosmos (n) does not know us, because it did not know Him. • 2 Beloved, we are now children birthed out from God, and it has not yet been made visible [in outward appearance] what we will be. We know that if He becomes visible [to us], we will be just exactly like Him, because we will be seeing Him as He is (o). • 3 And everyone who has this hope upon Him, purifies and devotes himself [to God], just exactly as Jesus is pure and devotes Himself [to God]. 4 Everyone who does sin in disconnection from God also does lawlessness; and disconnecting from God is lawlessness. • 5 And you know that He became visible to remove all sins and all disconnect [from the Father], and inside of Him there is no sin or disconnect at all. 6 Anyone living inside of Him does not disconnect from God; anyone sinning [p] has not seen Him and does not know Him. • 7 Little children, let no one take you in the wrong direction; the one who does what is just and pleasing to God is justly innocent, in exactly the same way that He is justly innocent. 8 The one who does sin out from disconnection is of the devil; because the devil has been sinning [disconnecting himself from God] since the beginning . • For this reason, the Son of God became visible, that He might remove the works of the devil, causing them to vanish. • 9 Anyone who is conceived out from God does not do sin, because the Sperm of God lives inside of him, and he is not capable, he does not have the ability to sin or to disconnect from God, because out from God he has been conceived. 10 Through this, the children of God are made visible, and the children of the devil. Anyone not doing what is just and pleasing to God [r], is not of God and also the one who is not loving his brother. • 11 For this is the message that you have heard from the start, that we should love one another in full reciprocity. 12 Not as Cain who was of the evil one and slaughtered his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his works were evil; whereas his brother’s works were just and pleasing [s). 13 Do not be surprised, brothers and sisters, if the present world-cosmos hates you. • 14 We know we are removed out from death, penetrating utterly into life, because we love our brothers and sisters. The one who does not love remains inside of death. 15 Everyone who contemptuously despises his brother is a murderer; and you know that a murderer does not have age-unfolding life living and remaining inside of him. • 16 By this we have known love, because He set forth his soul, His story of self, for us, for our sakes; • and we also are committed to setting forth our souls for the sake of our brothers and sisters [t]. 17 Now, whoever might have the necessities of life in this present world-cosmos, and who then sees his brother who has need, and closes up his heart away from him, how does the love of God live and remain inside of him? • 18 Little children, we should not love in word [only], but [also] inside of action and truth. • 19 By this we will know that we are out from the truth and will assure our hearts [possess the confidence of faith] before His face, 20 that if our heart should know blame and fault, that God as our heart is greater, and He knows all. • 21 Beloved, if our heart does not know blame or fault, we have the confidence to enter into God boldly. • 22 And whatever we might ask [u), we receive from Him, because we keep, guard, and watch over His commandments [inside of His full completion], and we are doing those things pleasing to Him. • 23 This is the commandment – that we should believe [have all confidence of faith] inside of the name and character of His Son, Jesus Christ, and that we should love one another, just as He gave His full completion to us. • 24 And the one keeping, guarding, and watching over His full completion, lives and remains inside of Him. And inside of this we know that He dwells inside of us, out from the Spirit whom He has given to us. |
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