1 John 3:6-8

The Voice

⁶ The ones who live in an intimate relationship with Him do not persist in sin, but anyone who persists in sin has not seen and does not know the real Jesus.

⁷ Children, don’t let anyone pull one over on you. The one doing the right thing is just imitating Jesus, the Righteous One.

⁸ The one persisting in sin belongs to the diabolical one, who has been all about sin from the beginning. That is why the Son of God came into our world: to destroy the plague of destruction inflicted on the world by the diabolical one.