8 Matt. 13:38;John 8:44Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was Heb. 2:14;[Gen. 3:15;Luke 10:18;John 16:11]to destroy the works of the devil. 9 ch. 5:18No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God’s3:9 Greek his seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God. 10 By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, ch. 4:8nor is the one who ch. 4:20,21does not love his brother.
Love One Another
11 For ch. 1:5;2:24this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, See John 13:34that we should love one another. 12 We should not be like Gen. 4:4,8;Heb. 11:4;Jude 11Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Ps. 38:20;Prov. 29:10Because his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous.