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See ^(F1)(C1)how great a love the Father has given us, that we would be called ^(C2)children of God; and in fact we are. For this reason the world does not know us: because ^(C3)it did not know Him.

^(C1)Beloved, now we are ^(C2)children of God, and ^(C3)it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He ^(C4)appears, we will be ^(C5)like Him, because we will ^(C6)see Him just as He is.

And everyone who has this ^(C1)hope set on Him ^(C2)purifies himself, just as He is pure.

Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and ^(C1)sin is lawlessness.

You know that He ^(C1)appeared in order to ^(C2)take away sins; and ^(C3)in Him there is no sin.

No one who remains in Him ^(C1)sins continually; no one who sins continually has seen Him or ^(F1)(C2)knows Him.

^(C1)Little children, make sure no one ^(C2)deceives you; ^(C3)the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous;

the one who practices sin is ^(C1)of the devil; for the devil ^(F1)has been sinning from the beginning. ^(C2)The Son of God ^(C3)appeared for this purpose, ^(C4)to destroy the works of the devil.

No one who has been ^(C1)born of God practices sin, because His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin continually, because he has been born of God.

By this the ^(C1)children of God and the ^(C2)children of the devil are obvious: ^(F1)anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who ^(C3)does not love his ^(C4)brother and sister.

^(C1)For this is the message ^(C2)which you have heard from the beginning, ^(C3)that we are to love one another;

not as ^(C1)Cain, who was of ^(C2)the evil one and murdered his brother. And for what reason did he murder him? Because ^(C3)his own deeds were evil, but his brother's were righteous.

Do not be surprised, brothers and sisters, if ^(C1)the world hates you.

We know that we have ^(C1)passed out of death into life, ^(C2)because we love the brothers and sisters. The one who does not love remains in death.

Everyone who ^(C1)hates his brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that ^(C2)no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.

We know love by this, that ^(C1)He laid down His life for us; and ^(C2)we ought to lay down our lives for the ^(C3)brothers and sisters.

But ^(C1)whoever has worldly goods and sees his brother or sister in need, and ^(C2)closes his ^(F1)heart ^(F2)against him, ^(C3)how does the love of God remain in him?

^(C1)Little children, let's not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and ^(C2)truth.

We will know by this that we are ^(C1)of the truth, and will set our heart at ease before Him,

that if our heart condemns us, that God is greater than our heart, and He knows all things.

^(C1)Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have ^(C2)confidence ^(F1)before God;

and ^(C1)whatever we ask, we receive from Him, because we ^(C2)keep His commandments and do ^(C3)the things that are pleasing in His sight.

This is His commandment, that we ^(F1)(C1)believe in ^(C2)the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as ^(C3)He ^(F2)commanded us.

The one who ^(C1)keeps His commandments ^(C2)remains in Him, and He in him. ^(C3)We know by this that ^(C4)He remains in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.

^(C1)Beloved, do not believe every ^(C2)spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because ^(C3)many false prophets have gone out into the world.

By this you know the Spirit of God: ^(C1)every spirit that ^(C2)confesses that ^(C3)Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God;

and every spirit that ^(C1)does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the ^(C2)antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and ^(C3)now it is already in the world.

You are from God, ^(C1)little children, and ^(C2)have overcome them; because ^(C3)greater is He who is in you than ^(C4)he who is in the world.

^(C1)They are from the world, therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them.

^(C1)We are from God. ^(C2)The one who knows God listens to us; ^(C3)the one who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know ^(C4)the spirit of truth and ^(C5)the spirit of error.

^(C1)Beloved, let's ^(C2)love one another; for love is from God, and ^(C3)everyone who loves has been ^(C4)born of God and ^(C5)knows God.

The one who does not love does not know God, because ^(C1)God is love.

By this the love of God was revealed ^(F1)(C1)in us, that ^(C2)God has sent His only Son into the world so that we may live through Him.

In this is love, ^(C1)not that we loved God, but that ^(C2)He loved us and sent His Son to be ^(C3)the ^(F1)propitiation for our sins.

^(C1)Beloved, if God so loved us, ^(C2)we also ought to love one another.

^(C1)No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God remains in us, and His ^(C2)love is perfected in us.

^(C1)By this we know that we remain in Him and He in us, because He has given to us of His Spirit.

We have seen and ^(C1)testify that the Father has ^(C2)sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.

^(C1)Whoever confesses that ^(C2)Jesus is the Son of God, God ^(C3)remains in him, and he in God.

^(C1)We have come to know and have believed the love which God has ^(F1)(C2)for us. ^(C3)God is love, and the one who ^(C4)remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

By this, ^(C1)love is perfected with us, so that we may have ^(C2)confidence in ^(C3)the day of judgment; because ^(C4)as He is, we also are in this world.

There is no fear in love, but ^(C1)perfect love drives out fear, because fear ^(F1)involves punishment, and the one who fears is not ^(C2)perfected in love.

^(C1)We love, because He first loved us.

^(C1)If someone says, "I love God," and yet he ^(C2)hates his brother or sister, he is a ^(C3)liar; for ^(C4)the one who does not love his brother and sister whom he has seen, ^(C5)cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

And ^(C1)this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God ^(C2)must also love his brother and sister.