约翰一书 3
1 你看父赐给我们是何等的慈爱，使我们得称为 神的儿女；我们也真是他的儿女。世人所以不认识我们，是因未曾认识他。 2 亲爱的弟兄啊，我们现在是 神的儿女，将来如何，还未显明；但我们知道，主若显现，我们必要像他，因为必得见他的真体。 3 凡向他有这指望的，就洁净自己，像他洁净一样。
4 凡犯罪的，就是违背律法；违背律法就是罪。 5 你们知道主曾显现，是要除掉人的罪，在他并没有罪。 6 凡住在他里面的，就不犯罪；凡犯罪的，是未曾看见他，也未曾认识他。 7 小子们哪，不要被人诱惑。行义的才是义人，正如主是义的一样。 8 犯罪的是属魔鬼，因为魔鬼从起初就犯罪。 神的儿子显现出来，为要除灭魔鬼的作为。 9 凡从 神生的，就不犯罪，因 神的道t存在他心里；他也不能犯罪，因为他是由 神生的。 10 从此就显出谁是 神的儿女，谁是魔鬼的儿女。凡不行义的就不属 神，不爱弟兄的也是如此。
彼此相爱
11 我们应当彼此相爱。这就是你们从起初所听见的命令。 12 不可像该隐；他是属那恶者，杀了他的兄弟。为什么杀了他呢？因自己的行为是恶的，兄弟的行为是善的。 13 弟兄们，世人若恨你们，不要以为希奇。 14 我们因为爱弟兄，就晓得是已经出死入生了。没有爱心的，仍住在死中。 15 凡恨他弟兄的，就是杀人的；你们晓得凡杀人的，没有永生存在他里面。 16 主为我们舍命，我们从此就知道何为爱；我们也当为弟兄舍命。 17 凡有世上财物的，看见弟兄穷乏，却塞住怜恤的心，爱 神的心怎能存在他里面呢？ 18 小子们哪，我们相爱，不要只在言语和舌头上，总要在行为和诚实上。
在 神面前安稳
19 从此就知道我们是属真理的，并且我们的心在 神面前可以安稳。 20 我们的心若责备我们， 神比我们的心大，一切事没有不知道的。 21 亲爱的弟兄啊，我们的心若不责备我们，就可以向 神坦然无惧了。 22 并且我们一切所求的，就从他得着；因为我们遵守他的命令，行他所喜悦的事。 23 神的命令就是叫我们信他儿子耶稣基督的名，且照他所赐给我们的命令彼此相爱。 24 遵守 神命令的，就住在 神里面， 神也住在他里面。我们所以知道 神住在我们里面是因他所赐给我们的圣灵。
1 John 3
1 (See what sort of love the Father has given to us: thatt we should be called God’s children – and indeedt we are!st For this reasont the world does not know us: because it did not know him.s2 Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will bets has not yet been revealed. West know thatt whenevert itt is revealeds we will be like him, becauset we will see him just as he is.s
3 And everyone who has this hope focusedt on him purifiess himself, just as Jesust is pure).s
4 Everyone who practices sins also practices lawlessness;s indeed,t sin is lawlessness.5 And you know that Jesusts was revealed to take awayt sins, and in him there is no sin.6 Everyone who residest in him does not sin;ts everyone who sins has neither seen him nor known him.7 Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousnesss is righteous, just as Jesust is righteous.8 The one who practices sin is of the devil,s because the devil has been sinningt from the beginning. For this purposet the Son of God was revealed: to destroyt the works of the devil.9 Everyone who has been fatheredt by God does not practice sin,ts becauset God’st seedt resides in him, and thust he is not able to sin, because he has been fathered by God.
10 By thist 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 Christiants – is not of God.
God Is Love, So We Must Love One Another
11 Fort this is the gospelt messaget that you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another,s
12 not like Cains who was of the evil one and brutallyt murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, but his brother’s were righteous.
13 Therefore do not be surprised, brothers and sisters,t if the world hates you.s14 We know thatt we have crossed overts from death to lifes becauset we love our fellow Christians.ts The one who does not love remains in death.s15 Everyone who hates his fellow Christiant is a murderer,s and you know that no murderer has eternal life residingt in him.16 We have come to know love by this:t that Jesust laid downs his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.
17 But whoever has the world’s possessionsts and sees his fellow Christiant in need and shuts off his compassion against him, how can the love of Godts resides in such a person?s
18 Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue but in deed and truth.s19 And by thists we will know that we are of the truth and will convincet our consciencet in his presence,t20 thatt if our conscience condemnst us, thatt God is greater than our conscience and knows all things.21 Dear friends, if our conscience does not condemn us, we have confidence in the presence of God,22 andt whatever we ask we receive from him, becauset we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing to him.23 Nowt this is his commandment:ts that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he gaves us the commandment.
24 And the person who keeps his commandments residests in God,t and Godt in him. Now by thist we know that Godt resides in us: by the Spirit he has given us.