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. Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices
lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. You know that he appeared in order to take
away sins, and in him there is no sin. No one who abides in him keeps on
sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him. Little
children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous,
as he is righteous.
