Thematic Bible
1 John 3:1 (show verse)
See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called children of God, and we are! Because of this the world does not know us: because it did not know him.
1 John 3:2 (show verse)
Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever he is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is.
1 John 3:3 (show verse)
And everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as that one is pure.
1 John 3:4 (show verse)
Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.
1 John 3:5 (show verse)
And you know that that one was revealed in order that he might take away sins, and in him [there] is no sin.
1 John 3:6 (show verse)
Everyone who resides in him does not sin. Everyone who sins has neither seen him nor known him.
1 John 3:7 (show verse)
Little children, let no one deceive you: the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as that one is righteous.
1 John 3:8 (show verse)
The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this [reason] the Son of God was revealed: in order to destroy the works of the devil.
1 John 3:9 (show verse)
Everyone who is fathered by God does not practice sin, because his seed resides in him, and [he is] not able to sin, because he has been fathered by God.
1 John 3:10 (show verse)
By this the children of God and the children of the devil are evident: everyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, namely, the one who does not love his brother.
1 John 3:11 (show verse)
For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another,
1 John 3:12 (show verse)
not as Cain, who was of the evil one and violently murdered his brother. And {for what reason} did he violently murder him? Because his deeds were evil and the [deeds] of his brother [were] righteous.
1 John 3:13 (show verse)
Do not marvel, brothers, if the world hates you.
1 John 3:14 (show verse)
We know that we have passed over from death to life because we love the brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.
1 John 3:15 (show verse)
Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that every murderer does not have eternal life residing in him.
1 John 3:16 (show verse)
We have come to know love by this: that {he} laid down his life on behalf of us, and we ought to lay down our lives on behalf of the brothers.
1 John 3:17 (show verse)
But whoever has the world's material possessions and observes his brother {in need} and shuts his heart against him, how does the love of God reside in him?
1 John 3:18 (show verse)
Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.
1 John 3:19 (show verse)
By this we know that we are of the truth and will convince our heart before him,
1 John 3:20 (show verse)
that if our heart condemns us, that God is greater than our heart and knows all [things].
1 John 3:21 (show verse)
Dear friends, if our heart does not condemn [us], we have confidence before God,
1 John 3:22 (show verse)
and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do [what is] pleasing {in his sight}.
1 John 3:23 (show verse)
And this is his commandment: that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as {he commanded us}.
1 John 3:24 (show verse)
And the one who keeps his commandments resides in him, and he in him. And by this we know that he resides in us: by the Spirit whom he has given to us.