Gottes Neue Bibel

The First Epistle General of John

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Think about how much our Father loves us: He allows us to say that we are his children. And this is indeed true. But people who are unbelievers have not understood who God is. So they do not understand who we are, that we are God’s children.
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Dear friends, even though at present we are God’s children, he has not yet shown us what we will be like in the future. However, we know that when Messiah comes back again, we will become like him, because we will see him face to face.
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So all those who confidently expect to see Messiah face to face, will keep themselves from sinning, just like Messiah, who never sins.
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But everyone who continues to sin is refusing to obey God’s laws, because that is what sin is, refusing to obey God’s laws.
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You know that Messiah came in order to completely remove the guilt of our sins. You know also that he never sinned.
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Those who continue doing what Messiah wants them to do, do not continue sinning repeatedly. But those who repeatedly sin have not understood who Messiah is, nor have they truly joined with him.
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So I urge you who are very dear to me, do not let anyone deceive you by telling you that it is all right to sin. If you continue doing what is right, you are righteous, just like Messiah is righteous.
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But anyone who continues to sin repeatedly is like the devil, because the devil has always been sinning since the world began. And the reason why God’s Son became a human being was to destroy what the devil has done.
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People do not continue sinning repeatedly if they have become children of God. They cannot continually sin because God has made them his children, and he has put into them what he himself is like.
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Those who are God’s children are clearly different from those who are the devil’s children. The way that we can know who are Satan’s children is this: Those who do not do what is right are not God’s children. And those who do not love their fellow believers are not God’s children.

Love One Another

(John 13:31–35; Romans 12:9–13)
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The message that you heard when you first believed in Messiah is that we should love each other.
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We should not hate others as did Adam’s son, Cain, who belonged to Satan, the evil one. Because Cain hated his younger brother, he murdered him. I will tell you about why he murdered his brother. It was because Cain habitually behaved in an evil way, and he hated his younger brother because his younger brother behaved in the right way.
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You should not be amazed when unbelievers hate you.
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Because we love our fellow believers, we know that God has made us to live forever with him. But God regards anyone who does not love their fellow believer as a person who is not living in life but is living under the power of death.
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God treats anyone who hates their fellow believers as though they had done something just as bad as committing murder. Anyone who does not love his brother is living for death, not life.
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The way that we now know how to truly love our fellow believers is by remembering that Messiah died for us of his own free will. So in the same way, we should do anything for our fellow believers, even die for them.
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Many of us have the things that are necessary for us to live in this world. If we become aware that any of our fellow believers do not have what they need and if we refuse to provide for them, it is clear that we do not love God as we claim to do.
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I am saying to you whom I love dearly, let us not merely say we love each other; let us love each other by helping each other.
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If we truly love our fellow believers, we can be sure that we are living according to the true message about Messiah. As a result, we will not feel guilty in the presence of God.
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We can pray confidently, because although we might feel guilty because we have done wrong, God deserves for us to trust him. He knows everything about us.
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Dear friends, if our minds do not accuse us of having sinned, then we can pray confidently to God.
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When we confidently pray to him and request something from him, we receive it because we do what he commands us to do, and because we do what pleases him.
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I will tell you what he commands us to do: We must believe that Jesus Christ is his Son. We must also love each other, just as God commanded us to do.
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Those who do what God commands are those who are joined with God, and God is joined with them. And it is because we have his Spirit, whom he gave to us, that we can be sure that God is joined with us.
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See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.
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Beloved, now we are children of God. 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.
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Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
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Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.
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You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and no sin is in him.
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Whoever remains in him doesn’t sin. Whoever sins hasn’t seen him and doesn’t know him.
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Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
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He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed: that he might destroy the works of the devil.
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Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him, and he cant sin, because he is born of God.
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In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother.

Love One Another

(John 13:31–35; Romans 12:9–13)
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For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another
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unlike Cain, who was of the evil one and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous.
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Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.
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We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.
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Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.
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By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
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But whoever has the worlds goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does Gods love remain in him?
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My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.
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And by this we know that we are of the truth and persuade our hearts before him,
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because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.
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Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;
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so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.
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This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.
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He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.