3:1 (See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that 1 we should be called God’s children – and indeed 2 we are! 3 For this reason 4 the world does not know us: because it did not know him. 5 3:2 Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be 6 has not yet been revealed. We 7 know that 8 whenever 9 it 10 is revealed 11 we will be like him, because 12 we will see him just as he is. 13 3:3 And everyone who has this hope focused 14 on him purifies 15 himself, just as Jesus 16 is pure). 17
3:4 Everyone who practices sin 18 also practices lawlessness; 19 indeed, 20 sin is lawlessness. 3:5 And you know that Jesus 21 was revealed to take away 22 sins, and in him there is no sin. 3:6 Everyone who resides 23 in him does not sin; 24 everyone who sins has neither seen him nor known him. 3:7 Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness 25 is righteous, just as Jesus 26 is righteous.