4. Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness.
5. But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin.
6. No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.
7. Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. He who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous.
8. He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work.
9. No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.
10. This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God; nor is anyone who does not love his brother.
11. This is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
12. Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother's were righteous.
13. Do not be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.
14. We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love remains in death.
15. Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life in him.
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