3:1 (See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that ¹  we should be called God’s children – and indeed ²  we are! ³  For this reason ⁴  the world does not know us: because it did not know him. ⁵  3:2 Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be ⁶  has not yet been revealed. We ⁷  know that ⁸  whenever ⁹  it ¹⁰  is revealed ¹¹  we will be like him, because ¹²  we will see him just as he is. ¹³  3:3 And everyone who has this hope focused ¹⁴  on him purifies ¹⁵  himself, just as Jesus ¹⁶  is pure). ¹⁷ 

3:4 Everyone who practices sin ¹⁸  also practices lawlessness; ¹⁹  indeed, ²⁰  sin is lawlessness. 3:5 And you know that Jesus ²¹  was revealed to take away ²²  sins, and in him there is no sin. 3:6 Everyone who resides ²³  in him does not sin; ²⁴  everyone who sins has neither seen him nor known him. 3:7 Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness ²⁵  is righteous, just as Jesus ²⁶  is righteous. 3:8 The one who practices sin is of the devil, ²⁷  because the devil has been sinning ²⁸  from the beginning. For this purpose ²⁹  the Son of God was revealed: to destroy ³⁰  the works of the devil. 3:9 Everyone who has been fathered ³¹  by God does not practice sin, ³²  because ³³  God’s ³⁴  seed ³⁵  resides in him, and thus ³⁶  he is not able to sin, because he has been fathered by God. 3:10 By this ³⁷  the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness – the one who does not love his fellow Christian ³⁸  – is not of God.

3:11 For ³⁹  this is the gospel ⁴⁰  message ⁴¹  that you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another, ⁴²  3:12 not like Cain ⁴³  who was of the evil one and brutally ⁴⁴  murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, but his brother’s were righteous.