1 John 3
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1See what great love # 3:1 Or what sort of love the Father has given us that we should be called God’s children — and we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it didn’t know him. 2Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. # 3:2 2Co 4:11; 1Pt 5:4; 1Jn 2:28 We know that when he appears, # 3:2 Or when it appears we will be like him # 3:2 Rm 8:29; 1Co 15:49; 2Co 3:18; Php 3:21; 2Pt 1:4 because we will see him as he is. # 3:2 1Co 13:12; Heb 12:14; Rv 22:4 3And everyone who has this hope # 3:3 Ac 23:6; 1Th 1:3 in him purifies himself just as he is pure. # 3:3 Php 4:8
4Everyone who commits sin practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness. 5You know that he was revealed so that he might take away sins, # 3:5 Other mss read our sins,# 3:5 Jn 1:29; 1Co 15:3; Heb 10:4; 1Pt 2:24 and there is no sin in him. # 3:5 2Co 5:21; Heb 4:15; 7:26; 1Pt 2:21–22; 3:18; 1Jn 2:29 6Everyone who remains in him # 3:6 Jn 15:4–7; 1Jn 2:6,24,27–28; 3:24; 4:13,15–16 does not sin; # 3:6 Or not keep on sinning,# 3:6 Rm 6:11–12; 1Jn 2:29; 5:18 everyone who sins # 3:6 Or who keeps on sinning has not seen him or known him.
7Little children, let no one deceive you. The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. 8The one who commits # 3:8 Or practices sin is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God # 3:8 Mk 1:11 was revealed # 3:8 Jn 21:1; 2Co 4:11; 1Pt 5:4; 1Jn 5:20 for this purpose: to destroy the devil’s works. 9Everyone who has been born of God # 3:9 1Jn 2:29 does not sin, # 3:9 Or not practice sin because his seed # 3:9 1Pt 1:23 remains in him; he is not able to sin, # 3:9 Or to keep on sinning because he has been born of God. 10This is how God’s children and the devil’s children become obvious. Whoever does not do what is right is not of God, especially the one who does not love his brother or sister. # 3:10 1Jn 2:10; 3:14–17; 4:20–21
Love in Action
11For this is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another, 12unlike Cain, # 3:12 Gn 4:1; Jd 11 who was of the evil one # 3:12 2Th 3:3 and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s were righteous.
13Do not be surprised, brothers and sisters, if the world hates # 3:13 Jn 17:14 you. 14We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers and sisters. The one who does not love remains in death. # 3:14 Jn 8:51 15Everyone who hates his brother or sister # 3:15 1Jn 2:9,11; 4:20 is a murderer, # 3:15 Mt 5:21–22; Jn 8:44 and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him. 16This is how we have come to know love: He laid down his life # 3:16 Jn 10:11,14,17–18; 13:37–38; 15:13 for us. # 3:16 Is 53:10; Mk 10:45 We should also lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. # 3:16 Mk 8:34–35; 1Co 11:1; Php 2:5–8 17If anyone has this world’s goods # 3:17 Mk 12:44; Lk 15:12; 1Jn 2:16 and sees a fellow believer # 3:17 Lit sees his brother or sister in need # 3:17 Ac 2:45 but withholds compassion # 3:17 2Co 7:15 from him — how does God’s love reside in him? # 3:17 Jms 2:15–16; 1Jn 2:5 18Little children, let us not love in word or speech, but in action and in truth. # 3:18 Mt 7:21; Jn 13:34–35; 15:12–17; Jms 1:22–25; 2:14–17
19This is how we will know that we belong to the truth # 3:19 Jn 14:6; 2Co 11:10; 3Jn 3 and will reassure our hearts before him 20whenever our hearts condemn us; for God is greater than our hearts, and he knows all things. # 3:20 Ps 139:6; Pr 2:6; Jn 14:28
21Dear friends, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have confidence before God 22and receive whatever we ask from him because we keep his commands # 3:22 Mk 7:8; Jn 14:15; 1Jn 2:3; 5:2 and do what is pleasing in his sight. 23Now this is his command: that we believe in the name # 3:23 Ps 33:21; Is 50:10; Jn 1:12; 3:18; 1Jn 5:13 of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another as he commanded us. 24The one who keeps his commands remains in him, # 3:24 Lk 11:13; Jn 15:4–7; Ac 5:32; 15:8 and he in him. And the way we know that he remains in us # 3:24 Jn 6:56 is from the Spirit # 3:24 Rm 8:9–16 he has given us.
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1 Yochanan 3
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1See what kind of ahavah HaAv has given to us, that yeladim of Elohim we should be called. And so we are. Therefore, the Olam Hazeh does not have da'as of us, because it did not have da'as of Him. 2Chaverim, now yeladim of Elohim we are, and not yet it is niglah (is revealed) what we will be. We have da'as that when He is niglah, like Him we will be, because we will see Him as He is.#3:2 Ps 17:15 3And everyone having this tikvah (hope) in Him keeps himself in tohorah (purification, keeps himself pure), even as that One is tahor.#3:3 Ps 18:26
4Everyone practicing chet also does averah, and chet is averah al HaTorah. 5And you have da'as that that One niglah (is revealed) that chata'einu (our sins) He might take away,#3:5 Isa 53:4,12 and chet in Him is not.#3:5 Isa 53:9 6Everyone making his maon in Him does not go on sinning; everyone sinning has not seen Him nor has had da'as of Him. 7Yeladim, let no#3:7 navi sheker, 1Y 4:1 deceive you; the one practicing tzedek is tzodek, even as that One is Tzaddik. 8The one practicing averos is of HaSatan, because from the beginning HaSatan sins. For this tachlis was made hisgalus of the Ben HaElohim, that he might destroy the pe'ulot HaSatan. 9Everyone having been born of Hashem is not practicing chet, because His Zera makes maon in him, and he cannot abide sinning, because he is born of Hashem.#3:9 Ps 119:3 10By this is made hisgalus of the yeladim of Hashem and the yeladim of HaSatan: everyone not practicing tzedek is not of Hashem; also the one not having ahavah for his Ach b'Moshiach.
11Because this is the divrei Torah which we heard from the beginning, that we have ahavah one for another, 12Not as Kayin, who was of the evil one, and slaughtered the ach of him; and for what cause did he slaughter him? Because the ma'asim of him were ra'im and the ma'asim of the ach of him were ma'asei tzedek.#3:12 Gn 4:8; Ps 38:20; Prov 29:10 13And, Achim b'Moshiach, do not marvel if the Olam Hazeh hates you. 14We have da'as that we have made our histalkus (passing) out of Mavet into Chayyim, because we have ahavah for the Achim b'Moshiach; the one not having ahavah makes his ma'on in death. 15Everyone hating his Ach b'Moshiach is a rotzeach (murderer). And you have da'as that every rotzeach does not have Chayyei Olam making a ma'on in him.
16By this we have had da'as of ahavah, because that One on behalf of us laid down his nefesh;#3:16 Isa 53:10 and we ought, on behalf of the Achim b'Moshiach, to lay down our nefashot. 17Now whoever has vital possessions of the Olam Hazeh and sees the Ach b'Moshiach of him being nitzrach (needy) and has no rachamim (mercy) on him#3:17 Dt 15:7,8 and refuses gemilut Chesed, how does the ahavas Hashem make ma'on in him? 18Yeladim, let us not have ahavah in dvar or in lashon but in ma'aseh and in Emes.#3:18 Ezek 33:31
19And by this we will have da'as that we are of HaEmes, and before Him we will persuade our levavot, 20That if our levavot condemn us, Hashem is greater than our levavot, and He has da'as of all things. 21Chaverim, if our levavot do not bring us under the gezar din (verdict) of ashem (guilty), we have bitachon before Hashem. 22And whatever we request, we receive from Him, because we are shomer of His mitzvot and the things pleasing before Him we practice. 23And this is the mitzvah of Him, that we have emunah b'Shem of the Ben HaElohim, Yehoshua, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, and that we have ahavah one for another, as He gave mitzvah to us. 24And the one being shomer of His mitzvot makes his ma'on in Him and He makes His ma'on in him; and by this we have da'as that He abides in us, by the Ruach Hakodesh whom He gave to us.#3:24 Yn 14:21,23; Ro 8:9,14,16
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