约翰一书
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第三章

1 你们看，父赐给我们的是怎样的爱，就是让我们可以称为　神的儿女，我们也真是他的儿女。因此，世人不认识我们，是因为他们不认识父。
2 亲爱的，现在我们是　神的儿女，将来怎样，还没有显明；然而我们知道：主若显现，我们必要像他，因为我们必要看见他本来是怎样的。
3 凡对他存着这盼望的，就洁净自己，像他一样的洁净。
4 凡是犯罪的，就是作了不法的事；罪就是不法。
5 你们知道主曾经显现，为要除掉罪，他自己却没有罪。
6 凡是住在他里面的，就不犯罪；凡犯罪的，是未曾见过他，也不认识他。
7 孩子们，不要受人欺骗，行义的才是义人，正如主是公义的。
8 犯罪的是出于魔鬼，因为魔鬼从起初就犯罪。因此，　神的儿子显现了，是要除灭魔鬼的作为。
9 凡是从　神生的，就不犯罪，因为　神的生命在他里面；他也不能犯罪，因为他是从　神生的。
10 这样，谁是　神的儿女，谁是魔鬼的儿女，就很明显了。凡不行义的，就不是出于　神，不爱弟兄的，也是这样。

应当彼此相爱
11 我们应当彼此相爱，因为这是你们从起初听见的信息。
12 不要像该隐，他是属于那恶者的，他又杀了自己的弟弟。为什么杀他呢？因为他自己的行为是恶的，弟弟的行为是义的。
13 弟兄们，世人若恨你们，不要希奇。
14 我们因为爱弟兄，就知道我们已经出死入生了；不爱弟兄的，仍然住在死中。
15 凡恨弟兄的，就是杀人的。你们知道，杀人的在他里面没有永生。
16 主为我们舍命，这样，我们就知道什么是爱；我们也应当为弟兄舍命。
17 凡有世上财物的，看见弟兄穷乏，却硬着心肠不理，他怎能说他心里有　神的爱呢？
18 孩子们，我们爱人，不要只在言语和舌头上，总要在行动和真诚上表现出来。

在　神面前可以坦然无惧
19 这样，我们就知道我们是属于真理的。即使我们的心责备我们，在　神面前我们也可以心安理得，因为他比我们的心大，他知道一切。
21 亲爱的，我们的心若不责备我们，在　神面前我们就可以坦然无惧了。
22 凡我们所求的，就必从他得着，因为我们遵守他的命令，作他所喜悦的事。
23 　神的命令，就是要我们信他的儿子耶稣基督的名，并且照着他的吩咐彼此相爱。
24 凡是遵守　神命令的，就住在　神里面，　神也住在他里面。凭着　神所赐给我们的圣灵，我们就可以知道　神住在我们里面。

NIV:
1 How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
3 Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure.
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.
16 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
17 If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
18 Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.
19 This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence
20 whenever our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.
21 Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God
22 and receive from him anything we ask, because we obey his commands and do what pleases him.
23 And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.
24 Those who obey his commands live in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.