1 John 2:28-1 John 3:10 - God's Children

²⁸ Now, dear children, keep in union with him, so that if he appears, we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame when he comes. ²⁹ If you know that he is upright, you may be sure that everyone who acts uprightly is his child.

¹ Think what love the Father has had for us, in letting us be called God's children, for that is what we are. This is why the world does not know what we are??ecause it has never come to know him. ² Dear friends, we are God's children now; it has not yet been disclosed what we are to be. We know that if he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. ³ And everyone who possesses this hope in him tries to make himself as pure as he is.

⁴ Whoever commits sin disobeys law; sin is disobedience to law. ⁵ You know that he appeared to take our sins away, and that there is no sin in him. ⁶ No one who keeps in union with him sins. Anyone who sins has never seen him or come to know him.

⁷ Dear children, let no one mislead you; whoever acts uprightly is upright, just as he is upright. ⁸ Whoever commits sin is a child of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. This is why the Son of God appeared??o undo the devil's work. ⁹ No one who is a child of God commits sin, for God's nature remains in his heart, and he cannot sin, because he is a child of God. ¹⁰ This is how the children of God and those of the devil can be distinguished: No one who does not act uprightly or who does not love his brother is a child of God.