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.
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.
3:3
ወኵሉዘተወከለኪያሁያነጽሕርእሶበከመውእቱንጹሕ።
凡向他有這指望的,就潔淨自己,像他潔淨一樣。
Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
3:4
ወኵሉዘይገብራለኀጢአትወለአበሳኒገብራውእቱእስመኀጢአትአበሳይእቲ።
凡犯罪的,就是違背律法;違背律法就是罪。
Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.
3:5
ወተአምሩከመአስተርአየዝክቱከመያሰስላለኀጢአትወኀጢአትሰአልቦኀቤሁ።
你們知道主曾顯現,是要除掉人的罪,在他並沒有罪。
You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and no sin is in him.
3:6
ወኵሉዘቦቱይነብርኢይኤብስእስመኵሉዘይኤብስኢይሬእዮወኢየአምሮ።
凡住在他裏面的,就不犯罪;凡犯罪的,是未曾看見他,也未曾認識他。
Whoever remains in him doesn’t sin. Whoever sins hasn’t seen him and doesn’t know him.
3:7
ደቂቅየኢያስሕቱክሙወኵሉዘይገብራለጽድቅጻድቅውእቱበከመዝክቱጻድቅውእቱ።
小子們哪,不要被人誘惑。行義的才是義人,正如主是義的一樣。
Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed: that he might destroy the works of the devil.
In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother.
3:11
እስመዛቲይእቲትእዛዝእንተሰማዕክሙትካትከመንትፋቀርበበይናቲነ።
我們應當彼此相愛。這就是你們從起初所聽見的命令。
For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another—