⁴ “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman.^(A)

¹⁰ “You are a child of the devil^(A) and an enemy of everything that is right! You are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery. Will you never stop perverting the right ways of the Lord?^(B)

⁸ The one who does what is sinful is of the devil,^(A) because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God^(B) appeared was to destroy the devil’s work.^{(C) 9} No one who is born of God^(D) will continue to sin,^(E) because God’s seed^(F) remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God. ¹⁰ This is how we know who the children of God^(G) are and who the children of the devil^(H) are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love^(I) their brother and sister.^(J)

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¹¹ For this is the message you heard^(K) from the beginning:^(L) We should love one another.^{(M) 12} Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one^(N) and murdered his brother.^(O) And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother’s were righteous.^{(P) 13} Do not be surprised, my brothers and sisters,^[a] if the world hates you.^{(Q) 14} We know that we have passed from death to life,^(R) because we love each other. Anyone who does not love remains in death.^{(S) 15} Anyone who hates a brother or sister^(T) is a murderer,^(U) and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.^(V)