1. The Father has loved us so much! This shows how much he loved us: We are called children of God. And we really are his children. But the people in the world don’t understand that we are God’s children, because they have not known him.
2. Dear friends, now we are children of God. We have not yet been shown what we will be in the future. But we know that when Christ comes again, we will be like him. We will see him just as he is.
3. He is pure, and everyone who has this hope in him keeps themselves pure like Christ.
4. Anyone who sins breaks God’s law. Yes, sinning is the same as living against God’s law.
5. You know that Christ came to take away people’s sins. There is no sin in Christ.