1 John 3:1-
Beloved, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed on us that we should be called children of God! Therefore, the world does not know us because it did not know Him.
Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.
And everyone who has this hope purifies themselves, just as Jesus is pure.
Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.
And Jesus was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin.
Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him.
He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.
Whoever has been born of God does not make a practice of sinning, because this new life of Christ is in us.
We have been born again through baptism, and this new life remains in us and so we do not sin because we have been born again, and we are now children of God.
