1 John 3 - ESV

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
1 John 3:1 love Father children
Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
1 John 3:2-3 purification family heaven

Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.
1 John 3:4 sin law righteousness
Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.
1 John 3:8 sin devil
For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
1 John 3:11 law love neighbor
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
1 John 3:16 love Jesus neighbor
But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?
1 John 3:17 money neighbor compassion
Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
1 John 3:18 honesty truth speaking
Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God; and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.
1 John 3:21-22 trust law obedience
Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.
1 John 3:24 law God Spirit