1 John 3:1-3, 5, 9, 11, 16, 18

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. 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.

You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.

No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God’s seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God.

For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.