1 João 3

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¹Consider the kind of love the Father has given us: we are called children of God, and we really are his children. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. ²Dear friends, we are children of God now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. What we do know is this: when he is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him as he truly is. ³Everyone whose hope is set on him in this way makes themselves pure, just as he is pure.

Children of God and children of the devil

⁴Everyone who goes on sinning is also practicing lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. ⁵You know that he was revealed so that he could take sins away, and he has no sin in him. ⁶Whoever remains in him does not go on sinning; whoever goes on sinning has neither seen him nor come to know him. ⁷Dear children, do not let anyone mislead you: it is the person who practices righteousness who is righteous, just as he is righteous. ⁸Whoever goes on sinning belongs to the devil, because the devil has sinned from the beginning and has never stopped. This is why the Son of God was revealed: to undo the works of the devil. ⁹Whoever has been born of God does not go on sinning, for God’s seed remains in them; they are not able to go on sinning, because it is from God that they have been born. ¹⁰This is how it becomes clear who are God’s children and who are the devil’s children: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not from God, and neither is anyone who does not love their brother or sister.

Love one another

¹¹For the message you heard from the beginning is this: we should love one another. ¹²We must not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil, and his brother’s were righteous. ¹³Do not be astonished, brothers and sisters, if the world hates you. ¹⁴We know that we have moved out of death into life, because we love our brothers and sisters. Whoever does not love remains in death. ¹⁵Whoever hates a brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that eternal life does not remain in any murderer. ¹⁶This is how we have come to know what love is: he laid down his life for us. And we in turn owe it to our brothers and sisters to lay down our lives for them. ¹⁷Suppose someone has enough of this world’s goods and notices a brother or sister in need, yet shuts their heart against them. How can the love of God remain in such a person? ¹⁸Dear children, let us love not by what we say or with our tongues, but by what we do and in truth. ¹⁹This is how we will know that we belong to the truth, and how we will set our hearts at rest in his presence ²⁰whenever our hearts condemn us: God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. ²¹Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we can approach God boldly, ²²and whatever we ask, we receive from him, since we are keeping his commands and doing what is pleasing in his sight. ²³This is what God commands: that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and that we love one another, following the command he gave us. ²⁴Those who keep his commands remain in God, and God remains in them. We can be sure that he remains in us because of the Spirit he has given us.

Notas

a1follow SBLGNT: include “and we are”. Outros manuscritos: leave out “and we are”.
b2the subject of “is revealed” is Christ, at his coming: when he is revealed we will be like him. Ou: “when it is revealed”: when what we will be is made known, we will be like him (Incerto).
c5follow SBLGNT: “the sins”. Outros manuscritos: “our sins”.
d6the present tense describes a settled way of life: whoever remains in him does not go on sinning. Ou: whoever remains in him never commits any sin at all; the verse describes the new life as it is in itself, an ideal not yet fully seen in believers; a particular sin is meant, such as the lawlessness of 3:4 or the sin that leads to death (5:16) (Incerto).
e9the present tense describes a way of life: the one born of God does not go on sinning and cannot go on sinning. Ou: the one born of God never commits any sin and is incapable of it; the verse describes the new life in itself, an ideal not yet fully seen; a particular sin is meant, such as the lawlessness of 3:4 or the sin that leads to death (5:16) (Incerto).
f9his seed: the life God plants in those he gives birth to, by which they come to share his nature. Também considerado: God’s word, planted in them (1 Peter 1:23; James 1:18); the Holy Spirit (3:24; John 3:5-6); “his offspring”: God’s children remain in God.
g14follow SBLGNT: “the one who does not love”, without an object. Outros manuscritos: “the one who does not love his brother”.
h19–20we will reassure our hearts whenever they condemn us, because God is greater than our hearts. Ou: “that if our heart condemns us, [we know] that God is greater”: both words mean “that”, the second repeating the first after the long condition; “because if our heart condemns us, God is greater”: a warning, God judging even more strictly than our conscience (Incerto).
i19–20God’s greatness is a comfort: he knows everything, including the love and the truth our accusing conscience overlooks. Ou: a warning: if even our own heart condemns us, God, who knows everything, will condemn us more (Incerto).