World English Bible
1 John 3:1
“Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.”
Verse in context — 1 John 3
1
Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.
2
Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.
3
Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
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Assurance of salvation and the call to love one another.
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