1See what great love the Father has given us in naming us the children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not see who we are, because it did not see who he was.
2My loved ones, now we are children of God, and at present it is not clear what we are to be. We are certain that at his revelation we will be like him; for we will see him as he is.
3And everyone who has this hope in him makes himself holy, even as he is holy.
4Everyone who is a sinner goes against the law, for sin is going against the law.
5And you have knowledge that he came to take away sin: and in him there is no sin.
6Anyone who is in him does no sin; anyone who is a sinner has not seen him and has no knowledge of him.
7My little children, let no man take you out of the true way: he who does righteousness is upright, even as he is upright;