Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 John 3:3 in context
1 John 3:1–6
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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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