1 JOAN 3

1 Begira zer-nolako maitasuna izan digun Aitak, Jainkoaren seme-alaba izena eman baitigu, eta izan ere hala gara. Horregatik, mundukoek ez gaituzte ezagutzen, Aita ere ez baitute ezagutu.t 2 Ene maiteok, dagoeneko Jainkoaren seme-alaba gara, baina oraindik ez da agertu izango garena. Badakigu, izango garen hori agertuko deneant, Jainkoaren antzekot izango garela, den bezalakoa ikusiko baitugu hura.

3 Harengan esperantza hau duen orok garbitu egiten du bere burua, Jesus garbia den bezala.

Bekatuari uko egin

6 Harekin bat eginik dagoenak ez du gehiago bekaturik egiten. Bekatu egiten duenak hura ez duela ez ikusi, ez ezagutu, erakusten du.t
7 Seme-alabatxook, ez zaitzatela inork engaina. Jainkoaren nahia egiten duena zuzena da, Kristo zuzena den bezalaxe.t 8 Bekatu egiten duena, berriz, deabruarena dat,t hasieratik ari baita deabrua bekatu egiten. Hain zuzen, honetarako agertu zen Jainkoaren Semea, deabruaren egintzak deuseztatzeko. 9 Jainkoarengandik jaio denak ez du bekatu egiten jarraitzen, mezuaren hazia bere barruan baitu; ezin du gehiago bekaturik egin, Jainkoarengandik jaioa delako.t

10 Honetan agertzen da zein den Jainkoaren seme-alaba eta zein deabruarena: Jainkoaren nahia egiten ez duena, hau da, bere senidea maite ez duena, ez da Jainkoaren seme-alaba.t

Elkar maitatu

12 ez Kainek bezala, Gaiztoarena izanik, bere anaia Abel hil baitzuen. Eta zergatik hil zuen? Beraren egintzak gaiztoak zirelako eta anaiarenak zuzenak.t
13 Ez harritu, senideok, mundukoek gorroto badizuete.t 14 Guk badakigu heriotzatik bizira iragan garena, eta hau jakin, senideak maite ditugulako dakigu. Maite ez duena heriotzaren menpe dago.t

15 Bere senideari gorroto diona giza hiltzaile da, eta badakizue giza hiltzaileak bere baitan betiko bizirik ez duena.t
16 Maitasuna zer den, Kristok gure alde bizia eman duelako jakin dugu. Guk ere senideen alde behar dugu geure bizia eman.t 17 Norbaitek lur honetako ondasunak baditu eta, bere senidea premian ikusirik, ez badio errukiz laguntzen, nola izan dezake bere baitan Jainkoaren maitasunik?t

18 Seme-alabatxook, ez dezagun hitzez eta ahoz maita, egitez eta egiaz baizik.t
19 Horrelaxe jakingo dugu egiarenak garela, eta lasaitu ahal izango dugu geure barrua Jainkoaren aurrean; 20 zeren eta, geure kontzientziak kondenatzen bagaitu ere, gure kontzientziaren gainetik baitago Jainkoa eta dena ezagutzen baitu. 21 Ene maiteok, geure kontzientziak kondenatzen ez bagaitu, berriz, uste osoz jo dezakegu Jainkoarengana,t

22 eta eskatutako guztia hartuko dugu harengandik, haren aginduak betetzen baititugu eta atsegin zaiona egiten.t
23 Hauxe da Jainkoaren agindua: sinets dezagula beraren Seme Jesu Kristogan eta maita dezagula elkar, berak agindu bezala.t 24 Agindu hauek betetzen dituena Jainkoarekin bat eginik dago, eta Jainkoa beronekin. Jainkoa gurekin dagoen seinalea hau da: berak eman digun Espiritua.t

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.