1 John 2:29-1 John 3:10 - Children Of God

29 If you know that He is upright, you must know that everyone who practices uprightness is born of Him.

1 See what wonderful love the Father has bestowed on us in letting us be called God's children, and that is what we are! This is why the world does not know what we are, because it has never come to know Him. 2 Dearly beloved, we are now God's children, but what we are going to be has not been unveiled. We know that if it is unveiled, we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is. 3 And everyone who has this hope in him tries to make himself as pure as He is.

4 Everyone who commits sin commits lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. 5 You know that He appeared to take our sins away, and that there is no sin in Him. 6 No one who continues to live in union with Him practices sin. No one who practices sin has ever seen Him or come to know Him.

7 Dear children, avoid letting anyone lead you astray. Whoever practices doing right is upright, just as He is upright. 8 Whoever practices sin belongs to the devil, because the devil has practiced sin from the beginning. This is why the Son of God appeared, to undo the devil's works. 9 No one who is born of God makes a practice of sinning, because the God-given life-principle continues to live in him, and so he cannot practice sinning, because he is born of God. 10 This is the way to distinguish God's children from the devil's children. No one who fails to do right is God's child, and no one who fails to love his brother.