Sunday Preview | May 13

Sunday Preview | May 13

This Week’s Scripture Passage:

And now, little children, remain in relationship to Jesus, so that when he appears we can have confidence and not be ashamed in front of him when he comes.  If you know that he is righteous, you also know that every person who practices righteousness is born from him.

See what kind of love the Father has given to us in that we should be called God’s children, and that is what we are! Because the world didn’t recognize him, it doesn’t recognize us.

Dear friends, now we are God’s children, and it hasn’t yet appeared what we will be. We know that when he appears we will be like him because we’ll see him as he is.  And everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself even as he is pure.  Every person who practices sin commits an act of rebellion, and sin is rebellion.  You know that he appeared to take away sins, and there is no sin in him.  Every person who remains in relationship to him does not sin. Any person who sins has not seen him or known him.

Little children, make sure no one deceives you. The person who practices righteousness is righteous, in the same way that Jesus is righteous.  The person who practices sin belongs to the devil, because the devil has been sinning since the beginning.  God’s Son appeared for this purpose: to destroy the works of the devil.  Those born from God don’t practice sin because God’s DNA remains in them. They can’t sin because they are born from God.  This is how God’s children and the devil’s children are apparent: everyone who doesn’t practice righteousness is not from God, including the person who doesn’t love a brother or sister.

1 John 2:28-3:10 (Common English Bible)

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